Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262679AbTHaUcO (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:32:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262675AbTHaUcO (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:32:14 -0400 Received: from tmi.comex.ru ([217.10.33.92]:54950 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262679AbTHaUcN (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Aug 2003 16:32:13 -0400 X-Comment-To: Eric W. Biederman To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: Mike Fedyk , Ed Sweetman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] extents support for EXT3 From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:37:27 +0400 In-Reply-To: (Eric W. Biederman's message of "31 Aug 2003 14:25:49 -0600") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) References: <3F4F76A5.6020000@wmich.edu> <3F4F7D56.9040107@wmich.edu> <3F4F923F.9070207@wmich.edu> <3F4FAFA2.4080202@wmich.edu> <20030829213940.GC3846@matchmail.com> <3F4FD2BE.1020505@wmich.edu> <20030829231726.GE3846@matchmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 528 Lines: 15 >>>>> Eric W Biederman (EWB) writes: EWB> In light of other concerns how reasonable is a switch to e2fsck that EWB> will remove extents so people can downgrade filesystems? also this could be done following way: 1) remount fs w/o extents support 2) copy files 3) remove old ones - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/