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Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:46:47 -0400
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: tytso@....ed, adilger@....com, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add extent conversion support to chattr
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:42:22PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> This patch adds new option, -E to chattr. The -E option
> is used to convert the ext3 format (non extent) file
> to ext4 (extent) format. This can be used to migrate
> the ext3 file system to ext4 file system.
I think this is an awkware interfac. Chattr is supposed to set simple
binary flags and not a front end to complicated filesystem conversions.
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