From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: Documenting the ext3 -> ext4 transition Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 15:12:00 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20150903191644.GC10390@birch.djwong.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2104\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4 To: "Darrick J. Wong" Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.220.54]:35783 "EHLO mail-pa0-f54.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752760AbbICVMF (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Sep 2015 17:12:05 -0400 Received: by pacfv12 with SMTP id fv12so1778765pac.2 for ; Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:12:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20150903191644.GC10390@birch.djwong.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > > Hi all, > > Now that ext3.ko is going away, Ted and I talked about having a wiki > page to talk about the transition (to using ext4.ko for ext3 FS) and > potential upgrade paths. There already was a section in the HOWTO, > but I promoted it to its own page and a link from the front page: > > Please take a look and suggest/make changes: > > https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/UpgradeToExt4 I thought is that ext3 had dir_index enabled by default, so it isn't totally correct that this feature needs to be enabled when upgrading from ext3 to ext4. Cheers, Andreas