On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:21:06PM -0500, Mitch Harder wrote: > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Diego Calleja <diegocg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Jueves, 21 de Octubre de 2010 17:46:58 David Nicol escribió: > >> Does this mixing constitute a forbidden change of on-disk format, and > >> if not how not? > > > > It doesn't need a format change. The difference between a data and > > a metadata block group is just an allocation hint AFAIK. > > -- > > 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 > > > > Let me know if the problems with an un-patched kernel were un-expected. > > I can provide more information on the crash when booting an older kernel. Nope they are expected, it's not a disk format change, but older kernels won't deal with mixed block groups. Thanks, Josef -- 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
