linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] Get rid of extents mount option

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Message-Id: <1160176800.8658.70.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>
Date:	Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:20:00 -0500
From:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Get rid of extents mount option - try 2

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:21:40 -0500
> Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Enabling an ext4 file system to use extents should be done with
> > 'tune2fs -O extents' or 'mke2fs -O extents', not with a mount option
> 
> But the mke2fs which I built by applying
> http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20060926/ to e2fsprogs-1.39 doesn't
> recognise `-O extents'.  So the only way I can use extents is `mount -o
> extents'.
> 
> What am I missing here?

To be honest, I've been lazy and I haven't even tried to get the new
e2fsprogs.  I just grabbed the latest from the mercurial repository,
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-hacking.html , and it doesn't
work for me either.  Ted?

Hold off on the patch until we figure it out.  :-)

Shaggy
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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