Re: Ext2 defragmentation
TenThumbs (tenthumbs@cybernex.net)
Wed, 17 Nov 1999 07:45:32 -0500
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote:
>
>
> 8 meg block groups imply you're using 1k blocks. 32 meg block groups
> imply you're using 4k blocks. E2fsprogs 1.18 automatically creates
> filesystems with 4k blocks when making large filesystems, but most folks
> have filesystems created with earlier versions of e2fsprogs which used
> 1k blocks by default, and so there are many filesystems using 1k block
> sizes out there. That's why I said 8 megs or 32 megs.....
>
> - Ted
>
Doesn't this change in e2fsprogs make it harder to recover data from a corrupt
fs since there's no obvious way to know where to look for backup superblocks.
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