Re: JFS resize=0 problem in 2.6.0

Mike Fedyk
2004-01-02T21:24:24Z

On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:12:21PM -0500, Elliott Bennett wrote:
> Soo...I would say that something is awry with the resizing of JFS
> filesystems. My patch obviously doesn't fix everything, but at least
> makes resizing to fill available space *possible*. :)
>
> The code surrounding my patch change treats the same variable (resize,
> which is a pointer to args[0].from) as a string, so it seems pretty
> obvious to me it should be comparing to '0'.

I would be careful of DM and MD RAID in 2.6.0. There are some bugs flying
around mentioning XFS->DM->MD RAID, , but also reproducable with Ext3->DM.

So if you're using DM, you might want to do some extra consistancy checks in
your tests, and don't use it with important data.