ext2 inode size patch - RE: PR kern/124621

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Tue Nov 25 06:28:31 PST 2008


On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:17:06AM -0500, Josh Carroll wrote:
> > I already expressed my opinion on
> > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-September/025933.html
> >
> 
> Sorry, I do not subscribe to hackers@ so I did not see that message.
> So what do you recommend is done to further test it? I tested simple
> things like copies, writes, deletes, etc on a memory disk, but nothing
> formal. I don't (currently) have a spare blank disk or space on an
> existing disk to test on physical media, but I can look into doing so
> once my development box is back up and running.
>
> I'm also curious what about the changes you feel are dangerous, so
> I can target the testing to exercise the boundary conditions or
> circumstances you think this patch would elicit problems.

I do not suggest testing. I suggest understand what inode metadata is stored
in the added 128 bytes and evaluate whether this information can be ignored
without dangerous consequences for filesystem consistency or user data.
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