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From: Michael Monnerie <michael.monnerie@is.it-management.at>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: filesystem shrinks after using xfs_repair
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:40:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201007301440.14195@zmi.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100730102943.GA24106@infradead.org>


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On Freitag, 30. Juli 2010 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 12:23:08PM +0200, Michael Monnerie wrote:
> > On Freitag, 30. Juli 2010 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Recent enough kernel work fine with filesystems that inode64 was
> > > used on even if it's not specified anymore.
> >
> >  
> > Really? Since when exactly? That would be a nice feature. If we
> > can  define it clearly, I could put that on the FAQ.
> 
> Linux 2.6.35 will be the first kernel with the bugfixes for this to
> work.

Hihi, *rofl*. That's what developers mean by "recent enough kernel": It 
will be "in the next release to come". :-)

> > But how does it truncate the numbers >int32 and avoid collisions?
> 
> It doesn't.  Existing inodes won't nessecarily fit into 32-bits, but
> no new inodes above it will be allocated.

OK, sounds simple. I wrote two new FAQ entries:

http://xfs.org/index.php/XFS_FAQ#Q:_What_is_the_inode64_mount_option_for.3F

Could "all who know better than me" please verify if the information is 
correct?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-12  1:10 filesystem shrinks after using xfs_repair Eli Morris
2010-07-12  2:24 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-12 11:47 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-23  8:30   ` Eli Morris
2010-07-23 10:23     ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-23 16:36       ` Eli Morris
2010-07-24  0:54     ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-24  1:08       ` Eli Morris
2010-07-24  2:39         ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-26  3:20           ` Eli Morris
2010-07-26  3:45             ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-26  4:04               ` Eli Morris
2010-07-26  5:57                 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-26  6:06                 ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-26  6:46                   ` Eli Morris
2010-07-26  8:40                     ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-26  9:49                     ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-26 17:22                       ` Eli Morris
2010-07-26 18:33                         ` Stuart Rowan
2010-07-26 21:06                         ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-27  5:02                           ` Eli Morris
2010-07-27  6:48                             ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-27  8:21                             ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-26 10:20                     ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-28  5:12                       ` Eli Morris
2010-07-29 19:22                         ` Eli Morris
2010-07-29 22:09                           ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-29 22:48                             ` Eli Morris
2010-07-29 23:01                           ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-29 23:15                             ` Eli Morris
2010-07-30  0:39                               ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-30  1:49                                 ` Eli Morris
2010-07-30  7:15                               ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-30  7:57                                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 10:23                                   ` Michael Monnerie
2010-07-30 10:29                                     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-30 12:40                                       ` Michael Monnerie [this message]
2010-07-30 13:17                                       ` Emmanuel Florac
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-12  6:39 Eli Morris
2010-07-11  6:32 Eli Morris
2010-07-11 10:56 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-11 16:29 ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-07-09 23:07 Eli Morris
2010-07-10  8:16 ` Stan Hoeppner
2010-07-24 21:09 ` Eric Sandeen

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