Re: What's cooking in e2fsprogs.git (topics)

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Theodore Tso wrote:
> I'ts been a while since I've pushed one of these out.  This updates pu
> against the latest "next" branch, so we can make sure all of the
> changes that had been folded into "maint" is included on the pu
> branch.  It also includes more work on the tt/extents patches.
> Tune2fs and e2image are now functional with extents, and e2fsck has
> more extents checking added.  Still a bit more work to be done there,
> and I also have to add code to deal with symlinks that have the
> EXTENTS_FL flag set.
> 
> I've dropped the js/flex-bg branch since it had conflicts with the
> on-disk bg flags, and it had conflicts with the exsting patches that
> caused me concern.  Jose, once you regenerate the patch and deal with
> comments, I'll add it back in.
> 
> My TODO list:
> 
>    finish e2fsck extents support
>    more flexible mke2fs.conf handling
>    EXT4 -- allow mke2fs 8TB without -f

ext3 should be fine as well, right?  And I think Josef sent a patch...

-Eric