From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: tytso@mit.ed, adilger@sun.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add extent conversion support to chattr
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:46:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080909114647.GA14052@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1220951542-1451-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:42:22PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> This patch adds new option, -E to chattr. The -E option
> is used to convert the ext3 format (non extent) file
> to ext4 (extent) format. This can be used to migrate
> the ext3 file system to ext4 file system.
I think this is an awkware interfac. Chattr is supposed to set simple
binary flags and not a front end to complicated filesystem conversions.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-09 11:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 9:12 [PATCH] Add extent conversion support to chattr Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-09 11:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-09-09 12:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-09 13:43 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-09 14:09 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-09 14:39 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-09 16:28 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-09 16:47 ` Theodore Tso
2008-09-09 16:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-09 16:54 ` Theodore Tso
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-09-12 9:04 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-12 9:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-12 9:27 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-09-12 15:26 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-09-12 9:31 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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