Re: [Jfs-discussion] block 0 and 1

[Dave K. <sh...@au...>]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> You could still get interesting effects with reiser - its superblock are
> 64K into the partition, and depending on the order of the file system
> probe in root mounting it could misdetect.

At 64K into the partition, the beginning of our block map should
overwrite reiser's superblock.  Looking back at the code, I believe we
will be zeroing the first 32K of the partition (and never used it again)
in the next code drop.  Then a good size chunk will be initialized with
our metadata.
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center