linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/5] mke2fs: the -g option will now specify the clusters per block group

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Message-ID: <20130115190516.GB17719@thunk.org>
Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2013 14:05:16 -0500
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	gnehzuil.liu@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] mke2fs: the -g option will now specify the clusters
 per block group

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 09:10:41AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 1/14/13 6:37 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > If bigalloc is enabled, then -g will specify the clusters per block
> > group.  (If bigalloc is not enabled, then a cluster == a block, so the
> > meaning of -g is not changed.)
> 
> This should be clearly documented in the man page as well, I think.

Yes, I'm going to include this change as a part of the Zheng's man
page clean up.

						- Ted
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