linux-ext4 - Re: Ext4 documentation

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Date:	Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:00:07 +0100
From:	Diego Calleja <diegocg@...il.com>
To:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Ext4 documentation

El Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:44:56 -0700, Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com> escribió:

> Looks pretty good, thanks for writing this up.  Minor notes:
> - While > 16TB is supported by ext4 disk formats, the mke2fs/e2fsck code
>   to support this is not in any released e2fsprogs yet
> - I don't think the journal async commit blocks are enabled by default, so
>   the "20% speedup" is not available yet.  There is some work that
>   needs to be done to make this feature 100% safe in case of corruption.
> - I'm not sure if enabling flex_bg on an existing ext3 filesystem is useful
> - you don't mention anything about the required e2fsprogs version.  I
>   _think_ (someone should confirm) that e2fsprogs-1.41.3 is the minimum
>   version that anyone should use.

Thanks, I've mentioned all this.
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