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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not set extents feature from the kernel
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:10:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709031049.GH9957@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48727954.1080406@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 03:15:16PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> We've talked for a while about getting rid of any feature-
> setting from the kernel; this gets rid of the code which would
> set the INCOMPAT_EXTENTS flag on the first file write when mounted
> as ext4[dev].
> 
> With this patch, if the extents feature is not already set on disk,
> then mounting as ext4 will fall back to noextents with a warning,
> and if -o extents is explicitly requested, the mount will fail,
> also with warning.
> 

Looks good, I've added it to the patch queue.

						- Ted

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-09  3:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-07 20:15 [PATCH] do not set extents feature from the kernel Eric Sandeen
2008-07-08  2:23 ` Peng tao
2008-07-08  2:25   ` Eric Sandeen
2008-07-09  3:10 ` Theodore Tso [this message]

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