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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Asdo <asdo@shiftmail.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Any on-disk format changes recently?
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:22:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0C6AB6.60900@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B0C2E46.1040509@shiftmail.org>

Asdo wrote:
> Dear XFS people
> I am tracking a nasty bug for which I would need to regress the kernel 
> version from 2.6.31 down to 2.6.28 or maybe even 2.6.24.
> I have to do this on an important fileserver full of important data on 
> XFS filesystems which were created on 2.6.31.
> I also need to *write* to the XFS filesystems after regressing the kernel.
> Do you see any problems with this? Have there been on-disk format 
> changes for XFS since 2.6.24 that could trigger data loss? (or with much 
> minor concern, fail the mount?)

Nothing about the xfs disk format should cause problems when bouncing
between .24 and .31

-Eric

> Thank you
> Asdo

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-24 19:04 Any on-disk format changes recently? Asdo
2009-11-24 23:22 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]

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