On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 07:56:05AM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> On 07/18/2017 03:35 AM, Karel Zak wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 09:30:39AM -0500, Mark Tinguely wrote:
> > > From: Mark Tinguely <mark.tinguely@xxxxxxx>
> > > The HPE (formerly SGI) enhanced XFS has changed its magic
> > Is it already supported by Linux kernel? I have problem google
> > anything about EXFS.
> XFS was written by SGI and SGI open sourced a version of it. EXFS is the SGI
> version of XFS.
> HPE bought SGI in Nov 2016. With the purchase of SGI, HPE now owns the the
> XFS trademark.
> This patch renames the EXFS magic so our customers can have a XFS root
> filesystem and EXFS filesystems.
> >
> > > version number to allow the use of EXFS and community XFS
> > > filesystems at the same time.
> > Unfortunately the patch uses the same magic string for EXFS log
> > (0xFEEDbabe) as XFS log. The result is that libblkid detects EXFS log
> > on all XFS images. (try "cd tests; ./run.sh blkid")
>
> We know that the log has the same numbers.
OK; merged, but without the log prober. It's impossible to have one
superblocks with two different names.
Karel
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