Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4DGhep26492 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Sun, 13 May 2001 09:43:40 -0700 Received: from mail11.jump.net (mail11.jump.net [206.196.91.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4DGhdF26489 for ; Sun, 13 May 2001 09:43:39 -0700 Received: from sgi.com (aus-dsl-dhcp1-26.customer.jump.net [63.163.168.26]) by mail11.jump.net (8.10.2/) with ESMTP id f4DGhb020046; Sun, 13 May 2001 11:43:37 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3AFEBA45.A9200F54@sgi.com> Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 11:45:57 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux CC: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Some questions. References: <200105131820030355.01053731@mail.gmx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk linux wrote: > what exactely does the kernel do when it says the recovery thing ? It re-plays the log to commit transactions which were still in the log when your power failed. > why a ext2-fs warning ? Not sure - do you have ANY ext2 filesystems on this box? > on the future release of xfs, when will we have to do a new mkfs.xfs ? > or only a kernel release ? The on-disk format is fixed (it's been around for years on Irix), so you won't need to re-make any existing XFS filesystems you have, even on new releases of XFS. -Eric -- Eric Sandeen XFS for Linux http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs sandeen@sgi.com SGI, Inc.