From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [PATCH] do not set extents feature from the kernel Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:10:49 -0400 Message-ID: <20080709031049.GH9957@mit.edu> References: <48727954.1080406@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: ext4 development To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from www.church-of-our-saviour.ORG ([69.25.196.31]:58640 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752952AbYGIDKz (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2008 23:10:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48727954.1080406@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 03:15:16PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: > We've talked for a while about getting rid of any feature- > setting from the kernel; this gets rid of the code which would > set the INCOMPAT_EXTENTS flag on the first file write when mounted > as ext4[dev]. > > With this patch, if the extents feature is not already set on disk, > then mounting as ext4 will fall back to noextents with a warning, > and if -o extents is explicitly requested, the mount will fail, > also with warning. > Looks good, I've added it to the patch queue. - Ted