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.
prev parent 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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