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Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 14:38:25 -0400 From: Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com> Cc: Girish Shilamkar <girish@...sterfs.com>, Ext4 Mailing List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [Patch 4/13] Allow regular files to be preallocated on-disk. On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:19:43AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Aug 03, 2007 20:40 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > I'm also a little concerned this patch doesn't solve the problem where > > a filesystem that had been previously mounted on an IA64 machine gets > > connected to an x86 machine and then e2fsck is run. This patch > > doesn't make the problem any more worse, and to fix this for real > > would require stashing the largest blocksize ever used by the > > filesystem in the superblock, and I'm not entirely convinced it's > > worth it. > > At worst we get some warnings in that case and the extra blocks beyond > EOF are removed. Yep, that's why I said it's probably not worth it to worry about that case. It still bothers me a little, but that's the perfectionist in me struggling to get out. :-) - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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