From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2003@gmx.net>
Cc: Kristian Koehntopp <kris@koehntopp.de>,
ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Strange directories after reisferfsck
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:15:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FA85D4D.7060009@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FA85B48.1050202@gmx.net>
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
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>>If so, wouldn't it be useful not only to have a magic byte
>>marker in each data structure, but also a filesystem generation
>>number, that is unique for each filesystem generated, for
>>example the time_t the filesystem was created. Thus metadata
>>structures from vmdk or loop files would have the same magic
>>bytes as metadata from the main filesystem, but would be
>>recognizeable as belonging to a different tree due to the
>>different generation number.
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>Yes, but:
>- nobody wants to sponsor that feature
>- reiserfs 3.6 is in feature freeze
>- the on-disk format would be not backwards compatible
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which is why it is in reiser4.....
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Hans
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-05 2:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-04 6:59 Strange directories after reisferfsck Kristian Koehntopp
2003-11-04 13:54 ` Vitaly Fertman
2003-11-05 1:08 ` Kristian Koehntopp
2003-11-05 2:07 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-11-05 2:15 ` Hans Reiser [this message]
2003-11-05 2:16 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-11-05 2:32 ` Hans Reiser
2003-11-05 16:35 ` Kristian Koehntopp
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