From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:42:56 +0100 (CET) > > On Feb 12 2008 15:38, David Miller wrote: > > > >> I still don't like the idea of btrfs trying to be smarter than a user > >> who can partition up his system according to > >> (a) his likes > >> (b) system or hardware requirements or recommendations > >> to align the superblock to a specific location. > > > >All of your beliefs are unfortunately without the understanding > >of restrictions that exist in several partition layouts such > >as the Sun disk label one. > > (Time for Sun to switch!) You can go update every sparc machine's firmware then, you can't boot off of a device that doesn't use a sun disk label. Your expectations are unrealistic, and it's just simpler to do something sane and follow the majority of existing practice by putting the superblock a few blocks into the partition. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
