From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: Re: [RFC][take 4] e2fsprogs: Add ext4migrate Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 19:29:04 +0530 Message-ID: <463F30A8.5010601@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <11782700042368-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070506051759.GP6220@schatzie.adilger.int> <463E9C53.8000503@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20070507132001.GB17180@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Tso Return-path: Received: from ausmtp04.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.152]:53088 "EHLO ausmtp04.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933865AbXEGN7N (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 May 2007 09:59:13 -0400 Received: from sd0109e.au.ibm.com (d23rh905.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.225]) by ausmtp04.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l47EIiY5324904 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 00:18:46 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.250.244]) by sd0109e.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l47E2djR144984 for ; Tue, 8 May 2007 00:02:39 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l47Dx70O014668 for ; Mon, 7 May 2007 23:59:08 +1000 In-Reply-To: <20070507132001.GB17180@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Theodore Tso wrote: > >> That is correct. My next step is to enhance the tool to support >> migration to large inodes. > > I would actually suggest that the place to add that functionality > would be via "tune2fs -I ". Since mke2fs -I > is used to set the inode size, it makes sense that tune2fs -I would > change the inode size. Obviously this would have to be done when the > filesystem is not mounted, and tune2fs should abort gracefully if > determines that the filesystem is mounted. That is nice !!. I will add the large inode migration support to tune2fs. -aneesh