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

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:07:18 -0400
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:

> 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 put a stable one up ;)

Are people likely to care about e2fsprogs much?  They'll just want to do
mkfs, maybe the occasional fsck.  At this stage it's the kernel code we
want people to beat on.

>  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....

I hope you didn't have anything else planned for this evening ;)