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

Andreas Dilger
2006-06-10T04:29:50Z

On Jun 09, 2006 19:45 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote:
> I think changing all of this mess to:
>
> [root@localhost root]# tune2fs -O extents /dev/whatever
> WARNING: Enabling extents on /dev/whatever will make this filesystem
> unreadable in Linux kernels versions before 2.6.19!
> Are you sure you want to do this? <y/n>
>
> [root@localhost root]# tune2fs -O ^extents /dev/whatever
> WARNING: Disabling extents on /dev/whatever requires you to run e2fsck
> on this filesystem before it can be used again!
> Are you sure you want to do this? <y/n>
>
> might assuage many of the fears presented in this thread.

If that were true, then I'd be happy to make this the barrier to entry.
Sadly, I don't think that is the only issue, but I'm happy to be shown
to be wrong.

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