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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs-oss <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2, RFC] xfsprogs: try to handle mkfs of a file on 4k sector device
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 08:50:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5385E996.30309@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140528054142.GC13166@infradead.org>

On 5/28/14, 12:41 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> We can modify platform_findsizes() to use the fsgeom call to get the
>> "sector size" which should be used here, and warn that mismatches
>> might exist if it fails.
>>
>> This does mean there'll be a new warning emitted on fs images hosted
>> on non-xfs filesystems; I'm not really quite sure it's worth it,
>> hence the RFC nature of this lightly tested 2-patch series...
> 
> Might be time to introduce some generic VFS-level ioctl for the sector
> size and dio alignment.  Any beer or chocolate that could motivate you
> to get this done? :)

Roses from you, Christoph.  ;)

Yeah, we do desperately need this.  Not sure why nobody's done it yet,
I'll see if I can get the time & motivation going, and launch into
the bike shed building.  :)

> Also it would be nice to have a test case that exercises this new code.

Hm yeah fair enough; I tested it w/ scsi-debug...

-Eric

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-28 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-28  0:12 [PATCH 0/2, RFC] xfsprogs: try to handle mkfs of a file on 4k sector device Eric Sandeen
2014-05-28  0:14 ` [PATCH 1/2, RFC] xfsprogs: check fs sector size in platform_findsizes() Eric Sandeen
2014-05-28  5:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-28  0:15 ` [PATCH 2/2, RFC] mkfs.xfs: don't call blkid_get_topology on regular files Eric Sandeen
2014-05-28  5:40   ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-28 12:31     ` Eric Sandeen
2014-05-28  5:41 ` [PATCH 0/2, RFC] xfsprogs: try to handle mkfs of a file on 4k sector device Christoph Hellwig
2014-05-28 13:50   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2014-06-05 19:13 ` [PATCH 1/2 V2] " Eric Sandeen
2014-06-06 15:20   ` Brian Foster
2014-06-05 19:15 ` [PATCH 2/2 V2] mkfs.xfs: don't call blkid_get_topology on regular files Eric Sandeen
2014-06-06 15:21   ` Brian Foster
2014-06-06 15:27     ` Eric Sandeen
2014-06-06 16:47       ` Eric Sandeen
2014-06-06 19:21 ` [PATCH 2/2 V3] mkfs.xfs: don't call blkid_get_topology on existing " Eric Sandeen

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