On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:17:51AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 3/4/13 6:47 AM, Ole Tange wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Ole, you can xfs_mdrestore your metadump image and run test repairs on the result, > >> if you want a more realistic "dry run" of what repair would do. > > > > I have never run xfs_mdrestore before. > > > > From the man page: > > > > xfs_mdrestore should not be used to restore metadata onto an > > existing filesystem unless you are completely certain the target can > > be destroyed. > > > > It is unclear to me if you are suggesting me to do: > > > > xfs_mdrestore the-already-created-dump /dev/md5p1 > > no. definitely not. :) > > > followed by xfs_repair. Or if you want me to restore the metadata on > > another 100 TB partition (I do not have that available). > > Nope - to a sparse file, on a filesystem which can hold a file with > 100T offsets - like xfs. > > > Maybe you have a trick so that it can be restored on some smaller > > block device, so I do not need the 100 TB partition, but I will still > > be able to see how many files are being removed? If you have such a > > trick, consider including it in the manual. > > Probably worth doing, or putting in the xfs faq. Examples of how to do these sorts of operations should go into the xfs users guide here: http://xfs.org/docs/xfsdocs-xml-dev/XFS_User_Guide//tmp/en-US/html/index.html Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
