From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:22:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:22:29 -0400 Received: from humbolt.nl.linux.org ([131.211.28.48]:49937 "EHLO humbolt.nl.linux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:22:24 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Daniel Phillips To: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [UPDATE] Directory index for ext2 Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:25:32 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: Tony Gale , Heusden@mail.bonn-fries.net, Folkert van , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Alexander Viro In-Reply-To: <200106251951.f5PJpOYN025503@webber.adilger.int> In-Reply-To: <200106251951.f5PJpOYN025503@webber.adilger.int> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01062600253207.01008@starship> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 25 June 2001 21:51, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Daniel writes: > > > > On Wednesday 20 June 2001 16:59, Tony Gale wrote: > > > > > The main problem I have with this is that e2fsck doesn't know how > > > > > to deal with it - at least I haven't found a version that will. > > > > > This makes it rather difficult to use, especially for your root fs. > > > > Sure, if your root partition is expendable, by all means go ahead. Ted > > has already offered to start the required changes to e2fsck, which > > reminds me, I have to send the promised docs. For now, just use normal > > fsck and it will (in theory) turn the directory indexes back into normal > > file blocks, and have no effect on inodes. > > This is only true without the COMPAT_DIR_INDEX flag. Since e2fsck _needs_ > to know about every filesystem feature, it will (correctly) refuse to touch > such a system for now. You could "tune2fs -O ^FEATURE_C4 /dev/hdX" to > turn of the COMPAT_DIR_INDEX flag and let e2fsck go to town. That will > break all of the directory indexes, I believe. This is what he wants, a workaround so he can fsck. However, the above command (on version 1.2-WIP) just gives me: Invalid filesystem option set: ^FEATURE_C4 Maybe he should just edit the source so it doesn't set the superblock flag for now. BTW, there doesn't seem to be a --version command in tune2fs. -- Daniel