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Re: Upgrading from v1.0.x to 1.1.x

To: "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>, chris@xxxxxxxxxx, Chris de Vidal <cdevidal@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Upgrading from v1.0.x to 1.1.x
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 19:10:27 +0200
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At 12:02 25-9-2002 -0400, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

Quoting Chris de Vidal <cdevidal@xxxxxxxxx>:

<snip>

Unlike some JFS' out there, XFS' structure remains relatively unchanged.  I
thank God almost everyday that SGI ported XFS from Irix -- damn sweet design in
the first place.

From my understanding, changes of the on-disc structure have beene few and far between in the Linux port itself. MIPS->Intel default blocksize and only a few

That is more of architecture issue. Even the Irix boxen default to 4k just like Intel. The PPC folks have 4k as well. It was only some of the ia64 people that got bitten by having a machine with 8k pagesize per default.
It was more a limitation that the fs blocksize == pagesize.

The current CVS can mount even 512byte blocksize filesystem like they can be created on Irix. And it has nothing to do with the actual layout.

Cheers

--
Seth
It might just be your lucky day, if you only knew.


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