On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 11:00:11AM +0000, Alexander Fisher wrote:
> You said that one of my workarounds would be to
> downgrade xfstools (or at least mkfs.xfs). Wouldn't
> it be better if the latest released version of
> xfstools worked correctly with the latest released
> version of xfs? Perhaps its possible for mkfs.xfs to
the latest version of XFS is in Linux 2.4.25
> detect the use of xfs1.3.1 (and earlier?) and not
> create large allocation groups under those conditions.
such runtime checks are really not appropriate for a mkfs IMO.
you can force current mkfs to not create large AGs. read the man page.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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