linux-ext4 - Re: Do we need dump for ext4?

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Date:	Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:17:03 -0400
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Do we need dump for ext4?

Just for completeness's sake, can you apply the following patch to
dump, and then try doing a benchmark run using dump on ext4?

I'm curious how it would compare.

      	       	   	   	     	       - Ted

Index: dump-0.4b41/dump/traverse.c
===================================================================
--- dump-0.4b41.orig/dump/traverse.c
+++ dump-0.4b41/dump/traverse.c
@@ -157,14 +157,6 @@ int dump_fs_open(const char *disk, ext2_
 			retval = EXT2_ET_UNSUPP_FEATURE;
 			ext2fs_close(*fs);
 		}
-		else if ((retval = es->s_feature_incompat &
-					~(EXT2_LIB_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_SUPP |
-					  EXT3_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_RECOVER))) {
-			msg("Unsupported feature(s) 0x%x in filesystem\n",
-				retval);
-			retval = EXT2_ET_UNSUPP_FEATURE;
-			ext2fs_close(*fs);
-		}
 		else {
 			if (es->s_feature_compat &
 				EXT3_FEATURE_COMPAT_HAS_JOURNAL && 
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