Re: [PATCH 0/3] Btrfs: fix free space tree bitmaps+tests on big-endian systems

[Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thursday, July 14, 2016 07:47:04 PM Chris Mason wrote:
> On 07/14/2016 07:31 PM, Omar Sandoval wrote:
> > From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
> >
> > So it turns out that the free space tree bitmap handling has always been
> > broken on big-endian systems. Totally my bad.
> >
> > Patch 1 fixes this. Technically, it's a disk format change for
> > big-endian systems, but it never could have worked before, so I won't go
> > through the trouble of any incompat bits. If you've somehow been using
> > space_cache=v2 on a big-endian system (I doubt anyone is), you're going
> > to want to mount with nospace_cache to clear it and wait for this to go
> > in.
> >
> > Patch 2 fixes a similar error in the sanity tests (it's the same as the
> > v2 I posted here [1]) and patch 3 expands the sanity tests to catch the
> > oversight that patch 1 fixes.
> >
> > Applies to v4.7-rc7. No regressions in xfstests, and the sanity tests
> > pass on x86_64 and MIPS.
> 
> Thanks for fixing this up Omar.  Any big endian friends want to try this 
> out in extended testing and make sure we've nailed it down?
>

Hi Omar & Chris,

I will run fstests with this patchset applied on ppc64 BE and inform you about
the results.

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chandan