Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 13:24:17 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Elliott Bennett <lkml@dhtns.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: JFS resize=0 problem in 2.6.0
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 03:12:21PM -0500, Elliott Bennett wrote:
> Soo...I would say that something is awry with the resizing of JFS
> filesystems.  My patch obviously doesn't fix everything, but at least
> makes resizing to fill available space *possible*. :)
> 
> The code surrounding my patch change treats the same variable (resize,
> which is a pointer to args[0].from) as a string, so it seems pretty
> obvious to me it should be comparing to '0'.

I would be careful of DM and MD RAID in 2.6.0.  There are some bugs flying
around mentioning XFS->DM->MD RAID, , but also reproducable with Ext3->DM.

So if you're using DM, you might want to do some extra consistancy checks in
your tests, and don't use it with important data.

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