[Ocfs2-devel] OCFS version 2 Beta format change

[Kurt Hackel]

Hi all,

Just wanted to send notice to everyone that the disk formatter and some
kernel code will be changing my next checkin to svn.  The mkfs.ocfs2
tool will now do a *complete* format of the device, including creation
of all of the "system" files.  It will also create the first 4 journals
(of 8MB a piece).  A later change to tuneocfs will let you add in nodes
beyond the first 4, and will also finish up the work of doing a proper
v1 -> v2 conversion.

So if you are doing OCFS version 2 testing, you MUST grab the latest
version of BOTH ocfs2 and ocfs-tools.  You should format any new
filesystems with the mkfs.ocfs2 command in ocfs-tools/format.  Existing
volumes will likely continue to work, but I would advise reformatting
existing volumes in the near future.

The first svn revision that contains the new code for ocfs2 is 866, and 
for ocfs-tools it is 18.  If you run into any problems, let me know
asap.

Thanks!
-kurt