Hello everyone, I had said that a revision of the ioctl API wouldn't be required and that I'd maintain compatibility even for my simple ioctl calls now. But, Ryusuke Konishi noticed that I didn't align the ioctl argument properly and that it was actually different sizes on 32 bit and 64 bit compiles. In general, the kernel has a compat ioctl facility to deal with this, letting us use different code to deal with a 32 bit executable run on 64 bit machines. But, it is a lot of cruft to carry around for a structure that is 1 byte off. I think it is better for the project if I just change the arg now and release v0.18 of btrfs-progs I've asked Linus to pull these ioctl changes, and so v2.6.29-rc2 will require v0.18 of btrfs-progs for the ioctl commands. The disk format has not changed. Any filesystems created by v0.17 and 2.6.29-rc1 will still be usable. The commands to scan devices, add, remove and balance volumes use these ioctls. You will need to update your btrfs-progs if you plan on using those commands in 2.6.29-rc2 Sorry for the trouble on this one, I really should have caught this simple error. -chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
