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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Chris Mason <chris.mason@fusionio.com>
Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs-progs: mkfs: enable extended refs by default
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:40:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131114184054.GL18494@twin.jikos.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131114174913.3802.72670@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:49:13PM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> Quoting David Sterba (2013-11-14 09:09:53)
> > The feature has been introduced in kernel 3.7 and enabling it by
> > default is desired.
> > 
> > All features enabled by default are marked as such in
> > 'mkfs.btrfs -O list-all' output.
> 
> Has anyone already tested syslinux and grub with extrefs enabled?

Extrefs and grub2 is used in opensuse 13.1 and this combination works, I
think that the extended refs are not used for the /boot files at all, so
it works as if no extrefs were enabled.  There is not incompat bit
handling in grub afaics.

david

      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-14 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-14 14:09 [PATCH] btrfs-progs: mkfs: enable extended refs by default David Sterba
2013-11-14 17:49 ` Chris Mason
2013-11-14 18:40   ` David Sterba [this message]

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