From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [PATCH] Get rid of extents mount option - try 2 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:07:18 -0400 Message-ID: <20061010210718.GB27591@thunk.org> References: <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> <1160176800.8658.70.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <20061007041439.GA5478@thunk.org> <1160236427.14217.14.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <20061007172027.GB5478@thunk.org> <1160506098.28923.7.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , ext4 development Return-path: Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:57730 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030391AbWJJVHX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 17:07:23 -0400 To: Dave Kleikamp Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1160506098.28923.7.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:48:18PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 13:20 -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 10:53:47AM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > > > I noticed we are missing Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt. Over the > > > weekend, I'll try to put something together with instructions on getting > > > the right version of e2fsprogs, etc. > > > > For now just say to grab the latest from: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs-interim > > Ted, > Do you think it's possible to put a source tarball out there with the > patches applied? It's confusing to untar the tarball only to find the > patchset. Otherwise, we'll have to beef up the instructions a little > bit. I was assuming that someone who knew out how to deal with -mm patchset would know how to deal with with a patchset. I agree it should be changed to e2fsprogs-1.39-tyt1-broken-out.tar.gz, though. We can put a source tarball up, but sometimes the e2fsprogs-interim patches will be, well, about as stable as the -mm tree. So people who assume a completely stable release may end up being a little disappointed. Hopefully by the time the ext4 stuff gets merged into the mainline kernel we'll have a e2fsprogs-WIP release which will support extents, and then we can tell people to use that.... - - Ted