On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:01:06 -0700 Andreas Dilger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I can imagine in some cases that the flexbg will not be completely > contiguous on disk (e.g. after a filesystem resize, if there are bad > blocks, etc). As long as the group descriptors themselves are correct > (i.e. referencing valid bitmaps/itable) then it shouldn't cause a mount > failure if the per-group data isn't strictly aligned according to the > superblock flexbg count.
Yes, the meta-data may not be completely contiguous on the disk as per the definition of flexbg. What I was planing on doing was to check the first, second and last-1 flexbg to see if how the meta-data is arranged. If none of those flexbg matches the size of the flexbg size in the super block the we can set sbi->s_groups_per_flex_shift to zero which would make the fs fallback to Orlov. > We would need to validate the group descriptor separately though (e.g. > group checksums). Agree > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group > Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. > -JRS - 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
