Re: [ext2resize] Re: Odd stride issues

[Andreas D. <ad...@cl...>]

On Sep 12, 2002  16:56 -0700, Robert Walsh wrote:
> Should the reserved blocks be reserved even in a block group that does
> not contain a super block backup?  Or are they available for use in the
> block group?

The reserved blocks are only used in the groups that have a superblock
backup (and hence also a group descriptor table backup).  They are not
touched (allocated or used) in groups that do not have backups.

In theory, the ext2resize/ext2online code should be able to handle
having arbitrary locations for the inode table and the bitmaps, but
it may be getting confused by the fact that there is no free blocks
before the inode table for the table at all, in the case of a zero
stride.

Cheers, Andreas
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