glabel for ufs: size check is overzealous?
Andriy Gapon
avg at icyb.net.ua
Wed Apr 22 13:06:16 UTC 2009
on 21/04/2009 21:43 Ivan Voras said the following:
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> I don't see why it should and - no, it actually does not.
>> fsck checks only filesystem's internal consistency, it doesn't check media size, etc.
>
> Well yes, if the number of blocks is really incorrect it should be
> visible from the arrangement of the metadata but still - that makes the
> field almost useless doesn't it?
How do you mean?
The field tells the filesystem size, how it can be useless?
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Andriy Gapon
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