Re: XLV question

From: Alexis Cousein (al_at_brussels.sgi.com)
Date: 11/24/03 

Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:03:18 +0100

Hit it Low wrote:

> A couple of things:
> We cannot xfsdump from disk 1 to disk 2 in order to clone it. After
> running "mkfs_xfs" disk 2 was mounted as /clone.
> Do I need to "break" and re-make the XLV volume to configure the two
> disks back into a mirrored xlv_volume?

No. you have to detach -force the broken plex from the volume's "data"
subvolume, make a plex in xlv_make containing the proper volume element
from your second disk, and go back to xlv_mgr to attach that plex back
to the original volume's "data" subvolume.

Or nuke everything and do a new xlv_make -- you don't lose data if you
nuke volumes -- as long as you remember how they were laid out ;). 

-- 
Alexis Cousein                   Senior Systems Engineer
alexis@sgi.com                   SGI/Silicon Graphics Brussels
<opinions expressed here are my own, not those of my employer>
<SGI sells IRIX *and* Linux systems -- I'm not flaming either>

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