On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 09:17:06AM -0500, Josh Carroll wrote: > > I already expressed my opinion on > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-September/025933.html > > > > Sorry, I do not subscribe to hackers@ so I did not see that message. > So what do you recommend is done to further test it? I tested simple > things like copies, writes, deletes, etc on a memory disk, but nothing > formal. I don't (currently) have a spare blank disk or space on an > existing disk to test on physical media, but I can look into doing so > once my development box is back up and running. > > I'm also curious what about the changes you feel are dangerous, so > I can target the testing to exercise the boundary conditions or > circumstances you think this patch would elicit problems.
I do not suggest testing. I suggest understand what inode metadata is stored in the added 128 bytes and evaluate whether this information can be ignored without dangerous consequences for filesystem consistency or user data.
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