On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:47:24PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
Ext3 does something similar, zapping space at the beginning AND the
end of the partition (because the MD superblocks are at the end).
It's just a misfeature of reiserfs's mkfs that it doesn't do this.
mkfs.xfs of course also whipes
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:11:00PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
There are however ways to confuse it: if you reformat an ext3
filesystem to reiserfs (version 3), mounting that filesystem without
-t reiserfs will trick mount(8) into mounting it as an ext3
filesystem (which will usually fail). This
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:29:19PM -0500, Sachin Gaikwad wrote:
Is it not the case that VFS takes care of all filesystems available ?
VFS will see if a particular file belongs to ext3 or ext4 and call
that FS's drivers to access information ??
No, the VFS won't do that. The mount(8) command
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:31:46PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:11:00PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
There are however ways to confuse it: if you reformat an ext3
filesystem to reiserfs (version 3), mounting that filesystem without
-t reiserfs will trick mount(8)
On Sep 25, 2007 23:40 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
kernel learner wrote:
ext3 filesystem has 32-bit block address and ext4 filesystem has
48-bit block address. If a user installs ext4, how will the file
system handle already existing block with 32 bit values?
Why should it ? thats what ext3
On 9/26/07, Andreas Dilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 25, 2007 23:40 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
kernel learner wrote:
ext3 filesystem has 32-bit block address and ext4 filesystem has
48-bit block address. If a user installs ext4, how will the file
system handle already existing block
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 06:29:19PM -0500, Sachin Gaikwad wrote:
Is it not the case that VFS takes care of all filesystems available ?
VFS will see if a particular file belongs to ext3 or ext4 and call
that FS's drivers to access information ??
No, it doesn't quite work that way. You have to
kernel learner wrote:
Hi,
ext3 filesystem has 32-bit block address and ext4 filesystem has
48-bit block address. If a user installs ext4, how will the file
system handle already existing block with 32 bit values?
Why should it ?
thats what ext3 is for.
your kernel can have both FS's
