linux-ext4 - Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1

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Date:	Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:34:59 +0400
From:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexandre Ratchov <alexandre.ratchov@...l.net>
Subject: Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1

>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:

 AM> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:55:26 -0700
 AM> Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:

 >> You grab Alexandre's kit from http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20060926/
 >> and a plain old `mke2fs -j' gives a filesystem which will mount as ext3 or
 >> ext4.
 >> 
 >> If you then mount this filesystem with `-t ext4dev -o extents', it becomes
 >> incompatible with the ext3 driver.  Yes?

 AM> `mke2fs -O extents' doesn't work.  Should it?

I believe we keep extents as a mount option for a while, just
for development purposes. though there is an agreement about
mke2fs -O extents, IIRC.

thanks, Alex
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