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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Upgrading datastructures between different filesystem versions
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:05:56 +0100
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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.