On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 06:39:31AM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > On 8/23/06, Nathan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So. What one must do ? I know XFS warrants _file system_ integrity > (not data), but > this is some kind of nasty thing 4K=5G.
Hmm, no, this is some kind of POSIX thing. Most filesystems support sparse files, and truncation out beyond eof; am I misunderstading the problem here? > > Hmm, non-working mkfs? Its not ringing a bell, can you refresh my > > memory? Thanks. > > > <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381881> > It seems working in last deb-inst i used. My comments about static Oh, right - but thats not a mkfs problem as much a missing libc package library, right? > xfs_repair (maybe with diet libc) are without reply also (note, that > there's e2fsck-static package ;). Yeah, patches welcome. I don't really see a strong case for this, I prefer it to be fixed properly (use a rescue disk, which is much more common) - so if you want it, you'll need to write a patch to xfsprogs packaging to do it (which I will happily accept, provided its tested and works). cheers. -- Nathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]