From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Get rid of extents mount option - try 2 Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 15:32:19 -0700 Message-ID: <20061006153219.d5b62ee8.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1160072610.8508.12.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <20061005205526.7fe744f5.akpm@osdl.org> <20061006122105.GA21816@thunk.org> <1160169015.8658.50.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <1160169700.8658.56.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Theodore Tso , ext4 development Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:30699 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161018AbWJFWce (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 18:32:34 -0400 To: Dave Kleikamp In-Reply-To: <1160169700.8658.56.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:21:40 -0500 Dave Kleikamp wrote: > Enabling an ext4 file system to use extents should be done with > 'tune2fs -O extents' or 'mke2fs -O extents', not with a mount option But the mke2fs which I built by applying http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/20060926/ to e2fsprogs-1.39 doesn't recognise `-O extents'. So the only way I can use extents is `mount -o extents'. What am I missing here?