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From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Tao Ma <tm@tao.ma>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: big allocation status
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2011 15:11:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110604191135.GC1001@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE9EE01.6070406@tao.ma>

On Sat, Jun 04, 2011 at 04:34:09PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> Cool, but do you have a mkfs.ext4 that we can let the kernel part work
> happily? Or we have to add the feature by hand by editing the disk
> format. ;)

Grab the bigalloc-hack branch on the e2fsprogs git tree on
git.kernel.org.  This will allow you to create bigalloc file systems
via "mke2fs -t ext4 -O bigalloc".  Don't base anything on this branch;
the code is incredibly hacky, and not how the final bigalloc
support will be done.

						- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-04 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-03  1:57 big allocation status Tao Ma
2011-06-04  3:38 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-06-04  8:34   ` Tao Ma
2011-06-04 19:11     ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2011-06-06 23:04   ` Ted Ts'o
2011-06-07  2:01     ` Tao Ma
2011-06-27 10:25     ` Tao Ma

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