Re: [PATCH] Get rid of extents mount option - try 2

Theodore Tso
2006-10-10T21:07:23Z

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:48:18PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 13:20 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:53:47AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> > > I noticed we are missing Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt. Over the
> > > weekend, I'll try to put something together with instructions on getting
> > > the right version of e2fsprogs, etc.
> >
> > For now just say to grab the latest from:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs-interim
>
> Ted,
> Do you think it's possible to put a source tarball out there with the
> patches applied? It's confusing to untar the tarball only to find the
> patchset. Otherwise, we'll have to beef up the instructions a little
> bit.

I was assuming that someone who knew out how to deal with -mm patchset
would know how to deal with with a patchset. I agree it should be
changed to e2fsprogs-1.39-tyt1-broken-out.tar.gz, though.

We can put a source tarball up, but sometimes the e2fsprogs-interim
patches will be, well, about as stable as the -mm tree. So people who
assume a completely stable release may end up being a little
disappointed. Hopefully by the time the ext4 stuff gets merged into
the mainline kernel we'll have a e2fsprogs-WIP release which will
support extents, and then we can tell people to use that....

- - Ted