Re: E2fsprogs master branch now has all 64-bit patch applied

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Theodore Ts'o wrote:

...

> What are things that are still left to be done before we 64-bit support
> is completely supported?  Just a few things:
> 
> * Currently the badblocks list mechanism only supports 32-bit blocks.
>   This may be OK, since running "badblocks" on a really large disk is
>   probably a fool's errand.  But how we handle this is an open question;
>   should we just refuse "mke2fs -c" or "e2fsck -c" for really big file
>   systems?  Should we deprecate the badblocks inode altogether?
> 
> * The online resizing code, which relies on using a resize inode and
>   indirect blocks, will not scale to 64-bit filesystems.  We have the
>   beginnings of support for the "meta_bg" style of resizing, which is
>   supported by the kernel and the e2fsprogs code --- but it hasn't been
>   implemented in the kernel yet.  We need to add that.

* Lazy inode table initialization so that large fs mkfs time is acceptable.

-Eric