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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LSF
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 09:04:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109080414.GH32491@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090108113915.GL13721@webber.adilger.int>

On Thu, Jan 08 2009, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Jan 06, 2009  12:21 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> > @@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ config LSF
> > +	  The ext4 filesystem requires that this feature be enabled in
> > +	  order to support filesystems that have the huge_file feature
> > +	  enabled.    Otherwise, it will refuse to mount any filesystems
> > +	  that use the huge_file feature, which is enabled by default
> > +	  by mke2fs.ext4.
> 
> Wouldn't it make sense to just enable this by default if ext4 is enabled?

Agree, since it'll prevent the fs from mounting, using a select makes a
lot more sense.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2009-01-09  8:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-06 17:21 [PATCH] block: Add Kconfig help which notes that ext4 needs CONFIG_LSF Theodore Ts'o
2009-01-06 20:17 ` Theodore Tso
2009-01-08 11:39 ` Andreas Dilger
2009-01-09  8:04   ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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