linux-ext4 - Re: Documenting the ext3 -> ext4 transition

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Message-Id: <FDEAB7F2-10F9-451F-ABBE-BBAA37FC4193@dilger.ca>
Date:	Thu, 3 Sep 2015 15:12:00 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Documenting the ext3 -> ext4 transition

On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Now that ext3.ko is going away, Ted and I talked about having a wiki
> page to talk about the transition (to using ext4.ko for ext3 FS) and
> potential upgrade paths.  There already was a section in the HOWTO,
> but I promoted it to its own page and a link from the front page:
> 
> Please take a look and suggest/make changes:
> 
> https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/UpgradeToExt4

I thought is that ext3 had dir_index enabled by default, so it isn't
totally correct that this feature needs to be enabled when upgrading
from ext3 to ext4.

Cheers, Andreas

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