Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1

Alex Tomas
2006-10-06T10:33:51Z

>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:

AM> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:55:26 -0700
AM> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

>> You grab Alexandre's kit from http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20060926/
>> and a plain old `mke2fs -j' gives a filesystem which will mount as ext3 or
>> ext4.
>>
>> If you then mount this filesystem with `-t ext4dev -o extents', it becomes
>> incompatible with the ext3 driver. Yes?

AM> `mke2fs -O extents' doesn't work. Should it?

I believe we keep extents as a mount option for a while, just
for development purposes. though there is an agreement about
mke2fs -O extents, IIRC.

thanks, Alex