Re: [GIT PULL] bcachefs new years fixes for 6.7

From: Kent Overstreet
Date: Thu Jan 04 2024 - 15:52:26 EST


On Thu, Jan 04, 2024 at 07:13:31PM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi Kent.
>
> Kent Overstreet - 01.01.24, 17:57:04 CET:
> > Hi Linus, some more fixes for you, and some compatibility work so that
> > 6.7 will be able to handle the disk space accounting rewrite when it
> > rolls out.
>
> Is it required to recreate BCacheFS with updated BCacheFS tools from Git
> in order to benefit from that compatibility work or does BCacheFS
> automatically update the super block?

Automatically updated as soon as a new version writes to it, and the old
versions just ignore the sections they don't know about.