From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: BTRFS partition usage... Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:02:28 -0500 Message-ID: <20080213070228.GA3301@infradead.org> References: <200802120908.59602.chris.mason@oracle.com> <200802120935.20437.chris.mason@oracle.com> <20080212.153557.159395336.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: chris.mason@oracle.com, jengelh@computergmbh.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, btrfs-devel@oss.oracle.com To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:48522 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752311AbYBMHCd (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:02:33 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080212.153557.159395336.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:35:57PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > What XFS does is really unfortunate, let's learn from it's > mistake. I'd rather say what Sun did with their disklabels was rather unfortunate :) But yeah, new filesystem should cater for it's braindamage because it doesn't have any kind of runtime cost at all. XFS was designed for IRIX back then which had disklabels just like the SUN ones, just without the braindamage of having the disklabel inside the partition..