Re: [RFC][E2FSPROGS][PATCH 0/8]
Laurent Vivier <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel |
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| Organization | Bull S.A.S. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:32:28PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote: >> [patch 1/8] move-bg_flags >> >> move the new 'bg_flags' field of the ext2_group_desc structure in >> order to make room for the MSB of the 64bit fields. > > This is clearly wrong; you change the on-disc format. Change the on-disc format for something not already introduced in the kernel. We did this in fact to keep compatibility with current kernel + 64bit patches... >> [patch 4/8] 64bit >> >> Introduce 64bit management. blk_t becomes 64bit wide. Manage >> meta-data structures as introduced by kernel patch "[RFC 3/5] >> support >32 bit ext3: 64 bit superblock changes". > > Ditto this one. NACK. We change the on-disk format, for sure. But we keep compatibility with old one. We already had this discussion, Matthew... Regards, Laurent -- Laurent Vivier Bull, Architect of an Open World (TM) http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4
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