linux-ext4 - Re: ext4 compat flag assignments

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Date:	Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:02:15 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...sterfs.com>
Cc:	Alexandre Ratchov <alexandre.ratchov@...l.net>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext4 compat flag assignments

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:19:06PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Good question, I don't know that it is.  Even if the journal was extent
> mapped (possible, but would need support in e2fsprogs for this) the
> data would be stored in the same sized i_blocks array.

That won't be too hard.  The e2fsprogs code is designed to be
identical to the kernel code, so we just drop in a new version of
fs/ext3/recovery.c that understands extents into e2fsck/recovery.c,
and e2fsprogs will have support.  :-)

						- Ted
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