Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

Andreas Dilger
2006-06-14T17:28:23Z

On Jun 14, 2006 18:45 +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> BTW: Upgrading a filesystem by using mount options _and_ forcing that
> option to be supplied on subsequent mounts is a BUG. If should be what
> current code demands, it should be fixed ASAP. I hope that's not what
> the current code does.

If you don't remount with "-o extents" all it (currently) means is that
new files will not be created with extents. Existing extent-mapped files
will continue to work. It was done this way so that if some serious
problem was found with extents there was a fallback position to "normal"
block mapped files and the damage would be limited to files created while
mounted with "-o extents".

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.