Re: [PATCH] xfs/122: reduce xfs_dsb_t size

Christoph Hellwig
2017-01-24T17:30:30Z

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:11:35AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Philosophically (I'm good at that) how do we handle tests like this
> that really only work on the latest version of the code, but don't
> actually indicate a bug if it fails on something older?

That might be another argument for doing the smaller than check that
Darrick suggested. Or an argument for simply stopping to check xfs_dsb,
it's growing constantly. Checking the offsets of known fields IFF
present wold seem more useful.