On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:03, Derrick Brashear <[email protected]> wrote:
> It shouldn't, at least in 1.5.current and head: it passes around a > struct which as it happens contains... what I think you suggest? > Yah, that's pretty much what I was looking for. I missed that the 1.5 uses !AFS_LINUX26_ENV rather than AFS_LINUX24_ENV for the file system check, and assumed the rest was the same. D'oh. So... looking at the JFS patch in RT, I suddenly got it: you were > looking at 1.4.x. > Unfortunately, this is still relevant, since distros are still on 1.4. I personally need it to work with JFS. But now it's unclear just how much work it's worth putting into it—add JFS, add all the file systems which “just work”, backport the whole mess? Some of this may still need to be done for things to work more > properly, since currently we don't properly tell what you call type 2 > that they've lost. > Actually, it doesn't matter, since you're sending them the correct generation number anyway. They only need hand-holding for the generation==0 hack.
