From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:35:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id m15FZHLt003688 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:35:21 -0800 Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 01C7A5A0DE4 for ; Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:34:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from enyo.dsw2k3.info (enyo.dsw2k3.info [195.71.86.239]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id PAGFjQeGzFFkIYOj for ; Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:34:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 16:33:37 +0100 From: Matthias Schniedermeyer Subject: Re: mkfs.xfs doesn't detect size of storage correctly Message-ID: <20080205153337.GA9915@citd.de> References: <20080129093201.GA16203@citd.de> <47A87877.1050106@sandeen.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47A87877.1050106@sandeen.net> Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Eric Sandeen Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com On 05.02.2008 08:53, Eric Sandeen wrote: > Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > There is roughly 1/3 missing. > > SGI, have you settled on a fix for this? Latest released xfsprogs, > 2.9.5 has this problem, and I've put it in rawhide; it's also in the F9 > alpha spin. Should I revert to 2.9.4 if you don't have plans to fix it > soon? > > Nothing indicates to the user that their fs was misformatted, and there > will be a growing number fileystems missing a substantial portion of > their space out there.... The big question here is if you can grow the filesystem to fix it. Before i found the workaround with the agcount i tested to grow the fs, but it didn't work. So: A correctly(tm) fixed package i think it must include a xfs_grows that can fix a damaged(tm) fs, otherwise people who use such a filesystem (and can't backup/restore) are stuck with missing a large chunk of space. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous.