Hi,

I have two 2TB hard drives. I want to make each have an XFS file system. I would like to have each one have a log area for the other. Maybe this isn't such a good idea?

I have tried to make partition 1 be the log area for the other drive and partition 2 be the "main" XFS partition for each drive.

The partitions are set up ok I think and when I make the filesystem on each with this command "mkfs.xfs -f -l logdev=/dev/sdd1,size=11m /dev/sdc2" and "mkfs.xfs -f -l logdev=/dev/sdc1,size=11m /dev/sdd2" both operations seem to succeed... but when I try to mount "/dev/sdc2 /sdc2" I get a message "unknown filesystem type 'xfs_external_log'".

Clearly I don't understand how this is supposed to work.

Could someone help me with this situation please?

George...