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Re: [PATCH] Re: Reduce XFS footprint (was Re: TAKE - remove a function x

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Reduce XFS footprint (was Re: TAKE - remove a function xfs added to filemap.c
From: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:28:04 +0100
Cc: "Steve Lord" <lord@xxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <1012331357.24486.67.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-to: "Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 13:09:17 -0600, Steve Lord wrote:

[...]
>XFS has two directory formats, V1 directories were the original, V2 was
>a new version written to fix problems with NFS and a few other apps.
>Linux always uses V2, the V1 is there for Irix compatibility - but it
>can get into loops or miss entries in readdir on linux.

So with Andi's patch one should NOT enable V1 directories, or otherwise the XFS 
code can't read existing V2 filesystems anymore? Is that right?

Thanks.


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