From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [Patch 4/13] Allow regular files to be preallocated on-disk. Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 10:19:43 -0600 Message-ID: <20070804161943.GF6142@schatzie.adilger.int> References: <1185275088.3789.69.camel@dhcp4.linsyssoft.com> <20070804004013.GF7449@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Girish Shilamkar , Ext4 Mailing List To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([74.0.229.162]:47952 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759289AbXHDQTo (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Aug 2007 12:19:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070804004013.GF7449@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org 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.