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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Something wrong with extent-based journal creation
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:04:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090617080432.GC13073@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A381EC8.4010202@redhat.com>

On Jun 16, 2009  17:38 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> I've narrowed it down to the commit (961306d3) which creates the journal
> with extent format; if that's commented out, it works fine.

Hmm, this seems like it might be a troublesome feature...  Are we sure
that there is proper kernel/tool compatibility for an extent-mapped
journal?  At least none of the Lustre code has any support for this,
though they can handle the INCOMPAT_EXTENTS feature, and I don't think
this was present in older kernels either.

I haven't looked at the code for this yet, so it may be that it will
"just work", but if this is a new feature I would urge caution w.r.t.
compatibility before this is merged upstream (in either e2fsprogs or
the kernel).

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-17  8:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-16 22:38 Something wrong with extent-based journal creation Eric Sandeen
2009-06-17  0:57 ` [PATCH] libext2fs: write only core inode in update_path() Eric Sandeen
2009-06-17 15:35   ` Theodore Tso
2009-06-17 15:50     ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-17 22:50       ` Theodore Tso
2009-06-17 23:00         ` Eric Sandeen
2009-06-17  8:04 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2009-06-17 14:45   ` Something wrong with extent-based journal creation Eric Sandeen
2009-06-17 15:31   ` Theodore Tso

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