On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 03/06/04 03:42, Stack Overflow wrote:
> > One last question, I see that development in xfs is very active ,
> > Changelog is big :) does that mean that people who want to update their
> > xfs to the latest code will need to backup and reformat partition with
> > the new version , or just upgrade the kernel patches and program on the
> > same filesystem ?
>
> I can't answer your other questions, but this last is easy. You just
> need to upgrade your kernel. I doubt anyone would have any serious
> interest in XFS if they had to reformat their partition with each release.
Right - on-disk format rarely changes, and always in a backwards-compatible
fashion when it does. (Remember, there have been Irix users of XFS
for many years - they would not tolerate incompatible changes.)
-Eric
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