Re: 1024 byte sector file system problem.

[Marc SCHAEFER]

I am not sure this went out, so, resending. If you look at the
original question, you will see the error comes from SCSI, and
not from a Linux kernel LBA check.

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
 decided that the partition table is written in hardware sectorsize
 units, not in units of 512-byte sectors. (No doubt because MSDOS

Ok, assuming the problem comes from a wrong partition table. Why doesn't
the block device filter the erroneous LBA, but instead sends it
as is to the SCSI device which answers with an error ?

I was assuming that block devices did check for last_lba. Even if the
geometry is wrong, the number of blocks is still known.

PS: it would be interesting to see if the 1024-bytes problem also happens
without a partition table (ie mke2fs -b 4096 /dev/sda instead of
/dev/sda1). If it does, well, something else is borken somewhere.

mfs mfs-initial-public-test-release is released

[Marc SCHAEFER]

hi,

I have released the initial public test release of mfs. Please look at
http://www-internal.alphanet.ch/~schaefer/mfs.html. Please only download
the archive if:

   - you are willing to patch a 2.2.13 kernel with FIST

   - you want to risk to install ALPHA quality software which has not all
 features, by far, implemented yet

   - you are willing to spend some time tracking problems, providing
 patches and ideas.

   - you are willing to join the linux-hsm mailing-list.

mfs is an attempt in doing HSM at the file level, (C) by me, released
under the GPL (see mfs/COPYING for details).