On Dec 13, 2007 09:51 -0600, Jose R. Santos wrote: > Now, storing the bits only guaranties that the flexbg size is always a > power-of-two and does not guarantee that the super block flexbg size > represents the actual meta-data grouping on disk. For this we need to > verify that the bitmap offsets match what the super block reports. It > may be an unlikely scenario, but it may be worth it to check this as > well at mount time. I'm not sure what you mean... Isn't the flexbg size just a count of the number of block groups? If it is always a power of two, and the groups per metabg is always a power of two (it is) then they will always be even multiples. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html