Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2002 11:04:16 -0600 | Subject | Re: ext2 anomaly when making filesystem? |
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On Sep 03, 2002 08:22 +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote: > Being curious, I dumped the metadata after creation and found some odd > thing: For several allocation groups there was a gap in the free > blocks. First I thought it is intentional; maybe to put administrative > data in the moddle of the allocation group, but then I found that other > groups had no such gap. I'll attach the dump at the end. > > If it's intentional, maybe add some documentation about the layout to > the manual pages; if it's a bug, it would be nice to see it fixed.
It _is_ intentional. The groups which have a gap do not have a backup superblock or group descriptor table.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
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