linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs new years fixes for 6.7

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Message-ID: <7pnbw4c5xvek3d3ina4etosspqjtluhbsfb67nwu7zgn4tzgfm@aeof65j2iaof>
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 15:52:09 -0500
From: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...ux.dev>
To: Martin Steigerwald <martin@...htvoll.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	linux-bcachefs@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs new years fixes for 6.7

On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 07:13:31PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi Kent.
> 
> Kent Overstreet - 01.01.24, 17:57:04 CET:
> > Hi Linus, some more fixes for you, and some compatibility work so that
> > 6.7 will be able to handle the disk space accounting rewrite when it
> > rolls out.
> 
> Is it required to recreate BCacheFS with updated BCacheFS tools from Git 
> in order to benefit from that compatibility work or does BCacheFS 
> automatically update the super block?

Automatically updated as soon as a new version writes to it, and the old
versions just ignore the sections they don't know about.