linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 02/12] libext2fs: automatically enable meta

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Message-ID: <20151024043806.GJ7917@thunk.org>
Date:	Sat, 24 Oct 2015 00:38:06 -0400
From:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] libext2fs: automatically enable meta_bg to avoid
 filling up BG 0

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 02:56:42PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> If during formatting we'd lose more than half of a block group to
> group descriptors and other metadata, enable the meta_bg feature.
> This enables us to create >500T filesystems with default options.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@...cle.com>

Applied, with the commit description fixed up.

	      	  	 	     	   - Ted
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