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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org>,
	Sachin Gaikwad <sachin.kernel@gmail.com>,
	Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>,
	kernel learner <kernellearner@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Upgrading datastructures between different filesystem versions
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:05:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070929090556.GA27132@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070928194723.GI8688@thunk.org>

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:47:24PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> Ext3 does something similar, zapping space at the beginning AND the
> end of the partition (because the MD superblocks are at the end).
> It's just a misfeature of reiserfs's mkfs that it doesn't do this.

mkfs.xfs of course also whipes at the end.  I just wanted to show how
easy this is to fix.


      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-29  9:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-25 15:27 Upgrading datastructures between different filesystem versions kernel learner
2007-09-26  5:40 ` Jim Cromie
2007-09-26 16:17   ` Andreas Dilger
2007-09-26 23:29     ` Sachin Gaikwad
2007-09-27  0:53       ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-28 13:11       ` Erik Mouw
2007-09-28 13:31         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-28 19:47           ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-29  9:05             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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