linux-ext4 - Re: [E2FSPROGS, RFC] New mke2fs types parsing

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Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:52:21 -0700
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
Cc:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [E2FSPROGS, RFC] New mke2fs types parsing

On Feb 20, 2008  17:20 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> There are only three things which mke2fs will do, in my design:

This should all go into the mke2fs man page...

> [fs_types]
> 	ext3 = {
> 		features = has_journal
> 	}
> 	ext4 = {
> 		features = extents,flex_bg
> 		inode_size = 256
> 	}

Presumably the ext4 feature should also have features = has_journal?
If this is the default for ext4, why would it need to be given for ext3?

We should also add "dir_nlink,flexbg" while we are in there.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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