From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:24:40 -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 m1TNOE37000897 for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:24:18 -0800 Received: from slurp.thebarn.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 3BF0A6346FD for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:24:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from slurp.thebarn.com (cattelan-host202.dsl.visi.com [208.42.117.202]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id xRvBMk6biNWFwvft for ; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:24:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47C89303.7070902@thebarn.com> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:19:31 -0600 From: Russell Cattelan MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [REVIEW] Don't make lazy counters default for mkfs References: <1204166101.13569.102.camel@edge.scott.net.au> <47C87775.2010007@thebarn.com> <47C89137.3070805@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: <47C89137.3070805@sandeen.net> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------000907060508040607060901" Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Eric Sandeen Cc: nscott@aconex.com, Barry Naujok , "xfs@oss.sgi.com" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000907060508040607060901 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric Sandeen wrote: > Russell Cattelan wrote: > > > >>> Hmm, that still seems pretty soon to me. I'd have thought you'd at >>> least want to wait until most of the distributions (esp. SUSE for you >>> guys) have released versions that have kernels sufficiently recent >>> that the default mkfs will work. Otherwise this will be a recurring >>> problem. >>> >>> >> I don't suppose there is an easy way to query xfs and find out if it can >> support >> the lazy SB option? >> > > I thought about that; xfs *could* stick someting in /proc/fs/xfs with > supported features or somesuch. > > But, the kernel you mkfs under isn't necessarily the one you're going to > need to fall back to tomorrow, though... > > True but at least it could make a bit of a intelligent decision. and maybe a warning for a while about potentially incompatible flags. > -Eric > > --------------000907060508040607060901 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=utf-8; name="cattelan.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="cattelan.vcf" begin:vcard fn:Russell Cattelan n:Cattelan;Russell email;internet:cattelan@thebarn.com x-mozilla-html:FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard --------------000907060508040607060901--