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. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html