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Subject: Re: glabel for ufs: size check is overzealous?
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on 22/04/2009 16:08 Ivan Voras said the following:
> 2009/4/22 Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>:
>> 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?
> 
> If nothing checks it and everything works, I'd say it's usefulness is
> a bit limited...

ufs driver doesn't check it, the driver *uses* it, so... :-)

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Andriy Gapon