From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758588AbYBMHCs (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:02:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754023AbYBMHCf (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:02:35 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48522 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752311AbYBMHCd (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:02:33 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:02:28 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Miller Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com, jengelh@computergmbh.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, btrfs-devel@oss.oracle.com Subject: Re: BTRFS partition usage... Message-ID: <20080213070228.GA3301@infradead.org> References: <200802120908.59602.chris.mason@oracle.com> <200802120935.20437.chris.mason@oracle.com> <20080212.153557.159395336.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080212.153557.159395336.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:35:57PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > What XFS does is really unfortunate, let's learn from it's > mistake. I'd rather say what Sun did with their disklabels was rather unfortunate :) But yeah, new filesystem should cater for it's braindamage because it doesn't have any kind of runtime cost at all. XFS was designed for IRIX back then which had disklabels just like the SUN ones, just without the braindamage of having the disklabel inside the partition..