[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH] Make tunefs.ocfs2 understand all journal options.
Sunil Mushran
sunil.mushran at oracle.com
Tue Nov 22 11:59:59 PST 2011
On 11/22/2011 11:49 AM, Joel Becker wrote:
> Nowhere in any of this do you check the filesystem you are
> changing. While ocfs2_make_journal() will reformat your journal, it
> doesn't handle any of the special case checking that we have in mkfs.
> Things like:
>
> - If your filesystem is larger than can be described by 32bits, you
> can't go to block32, at least without shrinking your filesystem below
> the 32bit boundary.
> - If your system can't describe 64bit block numbers correctly, you can't
> go to block64.
>
I agree with the first check.
The second check cannot be performed in tune. It is done during mount.
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