ADD 801063 - mkfs.xfs after having ext2 mounted on a device can fail

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 Submitter : lord                      Status : open                        
 Assigned Engineer : nathans           Priority : 3                         
*Modified Date : 09/11/00             *Modified User : sct                  
*Modified User Domain : redhat.com    *Description :
Running mkfs to build an xfs filesystem after a partition has
been mounted as ext2 has periodically failed for me. The failure
is usually this:

[root@lord /]# mkfs -t xfs -f -l size=16000b /dev/sda4
meta-data=/dev/sda4              isize=256    agcount=8, agsize=149104 blks
data     =                       bsize=4096   blocks=1192826, imaxpct=25
         =                       sunit=0      swidth=0 blks, unwritten=0
naming   =version 2              bsize=4096  
log      =internal log           bsize=4096   blocks=16000

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION (ADD)
From: "stephen c. tweedie" <sct@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sep 11 2000 07:45:04AM
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Hi,

On Sun, Sep 10, 2000 at 10:39:16PM -0700, nathans@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> I think what we're really after is a way to call set_blocksize from
> userspace

Agreed.  The filesystems themselves can call it, so it makes complete
sense for fsck and mfks type binaries to be able to do the same.

Cheers,
 Stephen