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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] xfs: clean up the EFI and EFD log format handling
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 07:55:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210421055541.GA28961@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210420170529.GH3122264@magnolia>

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 10:05:29AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> Hmm... so the behavior change here is that 32-bit kernels will start
> logging 16-byte xfs_extent structures (like 64-bit kernels)?

Yes.

> I see that
> xfs_extent_32 was added for 2.6.18; won't this break recovery on
> everything from before that?

Where everything is a 32-bit kernel that doesn't align properly, yes.

> Granted, 2.6.17 came out 15 years ago and the last 2.6.16 LTS kernel was
> released in 2008 so maybe we don't care, but this would seem to be a
> breaking change, right?  This seems like a reasonable change for all V5
> filesystems (since that format emerged well after 2.6.18), but not so
> good for V4.

Err, why?

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-21  5:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-19  8:27 cleanup the EFI/EFD definitions Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-19  8:27 ` [PATCH 1/7] xfs: remove the EFD size asserts in xlog_recover_efd_commit_pass2 Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-20 16:26   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-19  8:27 ` [PATCH 2/7] xfs: clean up the EFI and EFD log format handling Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-20 17:05   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-21  5:55     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2021-04-22  0:19       ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-19  8:28 ` [PATCH 3/7] xfs: pass a xfs_efi_log_item to xfs_efi_item_sizeof Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-20 17:09   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-21  5:56     ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-22  0:29       ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-19  8:28 ` [PATCH 4/7] xfs: pass a xfs_efd_log_item to xfs_efd_item_sizeof Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-20 17:10   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-19  8:28 ` [PATCH 5/7] xfs: add a xfs_efi_item_sizeof helper Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-20 17:11   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-19  8:28 ` [PATCH 6/7] xfs: add a xfs_efd_item_sizeof helper Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-20 17:12   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-19  8:28 ` [PATCH 7/7] xfs: Replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members Christoph Hellwig
2021-04-20 17:15   ` Darrick J. Wong
2021-04-20 22:16   ` Gustavo A. R. Silva

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