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

Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-06T23:20:04Z

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:21:40 -0500
> Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > Enabling an ext4 file system to use extents should be done with
> > 'tune2fs -O extents' or 'mke2fs -O extents', not with a mount option
>
> But the mke2fs which I built by applying
> http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20060926/ to e2fsprogs-1.39 doesn't
> recognise `-O extents'. So the only way I can use extents is `mount -o
> extents'.
>
> What am I missing here?

To be honest, I've been lazy and I haven't even tried to get the new
e2fsprogs. I just grabbed the latest from the mercurial repository,
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-hacking.html , and it doesn't
work for me either. Ted?

Hold off on the patch until we figure it out. :-)

Shaggy
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center