linux-ext4 - Re: Patch queue update

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Message-ID: <4798BD91.20108@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:32:17 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch queue update

Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2008  20:20 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> @@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ When mounting an ext4 filesystem, the following option are accepted:
>>  extents			ext4 will use extents to address file data.  The
>>  			file system will no longer be mountable by ext3.
>>  
>> +noextents		ext4 will not use extents for new files created.
>> +
> 
> s/new files created/newly created files/

Would a blurb about keeping ext3 disk-format compatibility be worthwhile
here?

>>  journal_checksum	Enable checksumming of the journal transactions.
>>  			This will allow the recovery code in e2fsck and the
>>  			kernel to detect corruption in the kernel.  It is a
>> @@ -206,6 +208,10 @@ nobh			(a) cache disk block mapping information
>>  			"nobh" option tries to avoid associating buffer
>>  			heads (supported only for "writeback" mode).
>>  
>> +mballoc		(*)	Use the mutliblock allocator for block allocation

speeeeling on "mutliblock" too :)

-Eric
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