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From: David Miller <davem@...>
To: <jengelh@...>
Cc: <chris.mason@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>, <btrfs-devel@...>
Subject: Re: BTRFS partition usage...
Date: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 - 7:28 pm

From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:20 +0100 (CET)


So that existing superblocks on the partition won't
be interpreted as correct by other filesystems.  It's
a safety measure many mkfs programs use.


No, we won't do stupid things like that and make an entire
cylinder of our disks unusable.  See my other reply.

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[ANNOUNCE] Btrfs v0.12 released, Chris Mason, (Wed Feb 6, 1:00 pm)
BTRFS only works with PAGE_SIZE &lt;= 4K, David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 5:55 pm)
Re: BTRFS only works with PAGE_SIZE &lt;= 4K, Chris Mason, (Tue Feb 12, 6:03 pm)
CRC32C big endian bugs..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 5:23 am)
BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 3:21 am)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 4:11 am)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Chris Mason, (Tue Feb 12, 9:49 am)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 4:50 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Feb 12, 10:00 am)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 7:28 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Theodore Tso, (Tue Feb 12, 8:45 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 7:26 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Bryan Henderson, (Tue Feb 12, 9:25 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Feb 12, 7:39 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 9:08 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Chris Mason, (Tue Feb 12, 10:08 am)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 7:33 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Jeff Garzik, (Tue Feb 12, 10:10 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Szabolcs Szakacsits, (Wed Feb 13, 8:51 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Feb 12, 10:21 am)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 7:34 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Chris Mason, (Tue Feb 12, 10:35 am)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 7:35 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Christoph Hellwig, (Wed Feb 13, 3:02 am)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Feb 12, 11:04 am)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 7:38 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Jan Engelhardt, (Tue Feb 12, 7:42 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Rene Herman, (Tue Feb 12, 9:22 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 9:09 pm)
Re: BTRFS partition usage..., Chris Mason, (Tue Feb 12, 12:17 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs v0.12 released, David Miller, (Sun Feb 10, 9:12 pm)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs v0.12 released, Chris Mason, (Mon Feb 11, 9:42 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs v0.12 released, David Miller, (Tue Feb 12, 2:43 am)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] Btrfs v0.12 released, Chris Mason, (Tue Feb 12, 9:43 am)