From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from verein.lst.de ([213.95.11.211]:49760 "EHLO newverein.lst.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726829AbeJCVnE (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Oct 2018 17:43:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2018 16:54:19 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] xfs: remove suport for filesystems without unwritten extent flag Message-ID: <20181003145419.GA5248@lst.de> References: <20181002174207.25275-1-hch@lst.de> <20181002174207.25275-3-hch@lst.de> <20181003145205.GE19324@magnolia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181003145205.GE19324@magnolia> Sender: linux-xfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: List-Id: xfs To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: Christoph Hellwig , linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 07:52:05AM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > Will there be a migration tool in xfsprogs to help administrators roll > their filesystems forward? Generally we don't seem to support enabling > new features on old filesystems (ala ext4) though maybe we should for a > very small and controlled set of porting operations? I wasn't planning to unless needed, mostly because I don't really think we'll see such file systems in the wild. They'd be very broken if you are using the current code on them already.