Re: [RFC][E2FSPROGS][PATCH 0/8]

Laurent Vivier <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel
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
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Laurent Vivier
Bull, Architect of an Open World (TM)
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