lvresize and XFS, was: default file system

James Harshaw jwharshaw at gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 23:04:17 UTC 2014


Haha! Error: stuff happened.
On Feb 27, 2014 6:02 PM, "Eric Sandeen" <sandeen at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 2/27/14, 4:40 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >
> > On Feb 27, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Feb 27, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Jochen Schmitt <Jochen at herr-schmitt.de>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 04:08:46PM -0500, James Wilson Harshaw IV
> wrote:
> >>>> A question I have is XFS worth it?
> >>>
> >>> I have done some testing with RHEL 7 Beta which use XFS as a default
> file system.
> >>>
> >>> I have to recorgnize, that the -r switch of the lvresize command
> doesn't cooperate
> >>> with xfs in oppoiste of ext4.
> >>
> >> Where you growing or shrinking the fs, and was it mounted at the time,
> and what error did you get? XFS doesn't support shrink, and only can be
> grown online. I'm pretty sure lvresize -r supports xfs_growfs via fsadm.
> >
> > worksforme
> >
> > Starting with a 10TB XFS volume, 5TB x 5 disk VG.
> >
> >
> > # lvresize -r -v --size 15T VG/LV
> >     Finding volume group VG
> >     Executing: fsadm --verbose check /dev/VG/LV
> > fsadm: "xfs" filesystem found on "/dev/mapper/VG-LV"
> > fsadm: Skipping filesystem check for device "/dev/mapper/VG-LV" as the
> filesystem is mounted on /mnt
> >     fsadm failed: 3
>
> <snip>
>
> > However, I don't know what "fsadm failed: 3" means.
>
> fsadm.sh:
>
>         if detect_mounted ; then
>                 verbose "Skipping filesystem check for device \"$VOLUME\"
> as the filesystem is mounted on $MOUNTED";
>                 cleanup 3
>         fi
>
> ...
> cleanup() {
> ...
>         exit ${1:-1}
> }
>
> the script exits with error "3" meaning, well, "3," I guess, when the fs
> is mounted.  Not the nicest error reporting IMHO :)
>
> -Eric
>
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