From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: New e2fsprog doc on the ext4 wiki page. Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:34:53 -0600 Message-ID: <20070724163453.GI5992@schatzie.adilger.int> References: <20070724110741.65ade06e@rx8> <46A62672.70808@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "Jose R. Santos" , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Return-path: Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([74.0.229.162]:37173 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753549AbXGXQe4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:34:56 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46A62672.70808@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Jul 24, 2007 21:48 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > Jose R. Santos wrote: > >ext4migrate: > >- Patches submited to the mailing list by Aneesh Kumar > >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/1395 > > I guess what we are looking at here is > > a) ext3 -> ext4 conversion would be done via option for defrag. This > conversion is now done via a ioctl. This is the suggested method for > defragmenting an ext3 inode (convert to ext4 and then defrag). > > b) small inode to large inode conversion is done via tune2fs -I < > new_inode_size> > I have patches for this ready. Will be sending them in a day or two. > > So the ext4migrate command may not be really needed. Ah, excellent news. Having a single tool (tune2fs) to manage configuration changes is much nicer. Having the generic undo manager to handle these kind of changes will allow us to do all kind of changes in the future. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.