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.

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