linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC][PATCH] mke2fs.conf: Enable 64bit feature by default

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Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:47:12 +0100 (CET)
From:	Lukáš Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] mke2fs.conf: Enable 64bit feature by default

On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Lukas Czerner wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 16:42:27 +0200
> From: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> To: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> Subject: [RFC][PATCH] mke2fs.conf: Enable 64bit feature by default

Hi Ted,

are you going to take this in ?

Thanks!
-Lukas

> 
> The 64bit feature has been added to the ext4 a long time ago (2006?) so
> it should be ok to enable it by default by now. This would allow us to
> resize the file system past 16TB when it was originally smaller than
> that and user did not specified 64bit feature manually.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>
> ---
>  misc/mke2fs.conf.in | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/misc/mke2fs.conf.in b/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
> index 178733f..dde3219 100644
> --- a/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
> +++ b/misc/mke2fs.conf.in
> @@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
>  		features = has_journal
>  	}
>  	ext4 = {
> -		features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize
> -		auto_64-bit_support = 1
> +		features = has_journal,extent,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_nlink,extra_isize,64bit
>  		inode_size = 256
>  	}
>  	ext4dev = {
> 
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