Might also be a good idea to require -f to force a mkfs of a filesystem which the kernel doesn't support. Would be good to get blocksize > pagesize into this scheme too btw, and unfortunately that on
On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 11:11:03 +1100, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> 0xffffffff 0x00000001 hm, but of course mkfs should never be checking for anything in the first features slot; yesterday's kerne
Nathan Scott wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 17:19 -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote: I thought about that; xfs *could* stick someting in /proc/fs/xfs with supported features or somesuch. But, the kernel yo
Could work but I dont like the idea of using -f for anything but mkfsing an existing filesystem. If that becomes habit for people it could lead to disasters. Don
Its already used for more than just overwriting existing filesystems. :) And it is already habit for some people. Which leads to disasters, yes. Its not a perfect system, but there's only so much you
Timothy Shimmin wrote: Nathan Scott wrote: On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 17:19 -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote: I thought about that; xfs *could* stick someting in /proc/fs/xfs with supported features or somes
IMHO: 1) mkfs should make a filesystem, the defaults should be conservative (say using features that have been around >1 year) 2) xfs should export supported features to userspace 3) if you want to m
I suppose I have to agree, unfortunately that means most competetive benchmarks will be using sub-optimal mkfs's, but... Ya know, good point. We already have "running kernel compatibility checks" bui
Benchmarks that use default mkfs options on xfs, but non-default on other fs? If you want, have a simple printf in mkfs that tells the user that he's not using the latest and greatest features (e.g.
Yes, we got to the consensus that having mkfs check for kernel stuff is plain wrong, and there are a load of reasons to that, the most convincing is that you can have no XFS support in the kernel at
id you also happen to save the xfs_repair output? No, but I made a complete copy of the file system before repairing it, so I can easily recreate it... :) Thomas Phase 1 - find a
to save the xfs_repair output? No, but I made a complete copy of the file system before repairing it, so I can easily recreate it... :) Thomas Phase 1 - find a
Fri, 2008-02-29 at 17:19 -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote: I thought about that; xfs *could* stick someting in /proc/fs/xfs with supported features or somesuch. But, the kernel yo