From: Dave Kleikamp Subject: Re: [PATCH] Get rid of extents mount option - try 2 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:20:00 -0500 Message-ID: <1160176800.8658.70.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> 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> <20061006153219.d5b62ee8.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Theodore Tso , ext4 development Return-path: Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:29843 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423000AbWJFXUE (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 19:20:04 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e2.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k96NK2Q2032315 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 19:20:02 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (d01av03.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.217]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id k96NK2Hc293910 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 19:20:02 -0400 Received: from d01av03.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av03.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k96NK2DN027401 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 2006 19:20:02 -0400 To: Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <20061006153219.d5b62ee8.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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? To be honest, I've been lazy and I haven't even tried to get the new e2fsprogs. I just grabbed the latest from the mercurial repository, http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-hacking.html , and it doesn't work for me either. Ted? Hold off on the patch until we figure it out. :-) Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center