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Date:      Wed, 22 Apr 2009 16:06:13 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-geom@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: glabel for ufs: size check is overzealous?
Message-ID:  <49EF1645.70704@icyb.net.ua>
In-Reply-To: <gsl446$vae$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <49EDCA21.70908@icyb.net.ua> <gskrld$vo0$1@ger.gmane.org>	<49EDF80F.3070105@icyb.net.ua> <gsl446$vae$1@ger.gmane.org>

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on 21/04/2009 21:43 Ivan Voras said the following:
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> I don't see why it should and - no, it actually does not.
>> fsck checks only filesystem's internal consistency, it doesn't check media size, etc.
> 
> Well yes, if the number of blocks is really incorrect it should be
> visible from the arrangement of the metadata but still - that makes the
> field almost useless doesn't it?

How do you mean?
The field tells the filesystem size, how it can be useless?

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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