[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Initalize bitmap_cpg of ocfs2_super to be the maximum,take 1

[Mark Fasheh]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:22:33PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:14:18PM -0800, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> > We encountered this during offline resize.
> >
> > While fsck.ocfs2 was updated to fix this issue, we never
> > did address the same in mkfs.
> >
> > As the chances that a user will encounter this is fairly low,
> > we could always bail online resize if it encountered this issue.
> > (A dirty read of the global bitmap from tune should suffice.)
> >
> > If so, ask user to run fsck.
> 
> Yeah, that's fine by me. We need to fix it in mkfs.ocfs2 though, before or
> at the same time this patch series goes in.

Ok, just realized that Tao has those patches in the ocfs2-tools series -
great.

Tao, just let us know if you tested the file system on a very small fs
created with the updated mkfs.ocfs2. If you haven't, please do and in any
case provide precise details as to how it was tested.

Thanks,
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh
Senior Software Developer, Oracle
mark.fasheh at oracle.com