linux-ext4 - Re: big allocation status

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Message-ID: <20110604191135.GC1001@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 4 Jun 2011 15:11:35 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: big allocation status

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 04:34:09PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> Cool, but do you have a mkfs.ext4 that we can let the kernel part work
> happily? Or we have to add the feature by hand by editing the disk
> format. ;)

Grab the bigalloc-hack branch on the e2fsprogs git tree on
git.kernel.org.  This will allow you to create bigalloc file systems
via "mke2fs -t ext4 -O bigalloc".  Don't base anything on this branch;
the code is incredibly hacky, and not how the final bigalloc
support will be done.

						- Ted
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