[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 13/15] ocfs2: ocfs2_group_bitmap_size has to handle old volume.

[Tao Ma]

Hi wengang,

Wengang Wang wrote:
> On 10-04-01 12:22, Tao Ma wrote:
>> Hi Joel,
>>
>> Joel Becker wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 10:59:10AM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
>>>> ocfs2_group_bitmap_size has to handle the case when the
>>>> volume don't have discontiguous block group support.
>>> 	NAK.  We specify 256 in all cases.  This doesn't hurt old code
>>> because we've never used more bits.  Even though our old bg_size values
>>> were much larger, we never used that space because bg_bits was set to
>>> the smaller value.
>> No, it hurts.
> 
> Hi, 
>> So with an old ocfs2-tools and a new kernel, the new kernel will set it 
>> to 256 while the old ocfs2-tools refused to work by checking bg_size(see
>> chainalloc_process_group in libocfs2).
> 
> Just for my info.
> Is "old ocfs2-tools + new kernel" supported?
I guess yes? I am not sure whether a user can use a 2.6.35 kernel(the 
next merge window) while using an ocfs2-tools 1.4.

Regards,
Tao