[CentOS] xfs question

Tue Aug 4 14:37:38 UTC 2015
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

On 8/4/2015 7:14 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Hi, folks,
>
>     CentOS 6.6 (well, just updated with CR). I have some xfs filesystems on
> a RAID. They've been mounted with the option of defaults. Will it break
> the whole thing if I now change that to inode64, or was that something
> I needed to do when the fs was created, or is there some conversion I
> can run that won't break everything?


you can enable that option at any time, but once you've used it, you 
can't go back.

note that 64 bit inodes cause a minor issue with NFS if you have shares 
exported other than the root.  there's an easy workaround.


-- 
john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz