REASSIGN 801063 - mkfs.xfs after having ext2 mounted on a device can fail

[pv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (lord@xxxxxxx)]

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 Status : open                         Priority : 3                         
*Assigned Engineer : nathans          *Assigned Domain : engr               
 Submitter : lord                      Project : xfs-linux                  
 Assigned Group : xfs-linux            Opened Date : 09/06/00               
*Modified User : lord                 *Modified User Domain : sgi.com       
*Description :
Running mkfs to build an xfs filesystem after a partition has
been mounted as ext2 has periodically failed for me. The failure
is usually this:

[root@lord /]# mkfs -t xfs -f -l size=16000b /dev/sda4
meta-data=/dev/sda4              isize=256    agcount=8, agsize=149104 blks
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=1192826, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096  
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=16000

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (REASSIGN)
From: lord@xxxxxxx (BugWorks)
Date: Sep 06 2000 02:31:04PM
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Arbitrarily sending this Nathan's way.