From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Cc: Girish Shilamkar <girish@clusterfs.com>,
Ext4 Mailing List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 4/13] Allow regular files to be preallocated on-disk.
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:38:25 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070804183825.GA11150@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070804161943.GF6142@schatzie.adilger.int>
On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:19:43AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Aug 03, 2007 20:40 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > I'm also a little concerned this patch doesn't solve the problem where
> > a filesystem that had been previously mounted on an IA64 machine gets
> > connected to an x86 machine and then e2fsck is run. This patch
> > doesn't make the problem any more worse, and to fix this for real
> > would require stashing the largest blocksize ever used by the
> > filesystem in the superblock, and I'm not entirely convinced it's
> > worth it.
>
> At worst we get some warnings in that case and the extra blocks beyond
> EOF are removed.
Yep, that's why I said it's probably not worth it to worry about that
case. It still bothers me a little, but that's the perfectionist in
me struggling to get out. :-)
- Ted
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-04 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-24 11:04 [Patch 4/13] Allow regular files to be preallocated on-disk Girish Shilamkar
2007-08-04 0:40 ` Theodore Tso
2007-08-04 16:19 ` Andreas Dilger
2007-08-04 18:38 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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