From: Goswin von Brederlow Subject: Re: Making it easier for end users to use ext4 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:22:36 +0200 Message-ID: <873ambwwkj.fsf@frosties.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]:55599 "EHLO fmmailgate02.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751288AbYGOFWi (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:22:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Theodore Ts'o's message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:24:05 -0400") Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: "Theodore Ts'o" writes: > So I got a comment on my recent blog posting about using ext4 that > Googling ext4 results in a lot of ancient status reports and not a lot > of good information about how to get started with ext4. The comment was > fair, so I took a few minutes to update this web page: > > http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto > > with some getting started information. Many thanks. Going through various pages I found the information to be seriously out of date ranging from one to two years. Some thoughts about missing bits from a first read through: Getting Ext4 code: - add ext4 and e2fsprogs git repositories - Add Debian section 64 bit block support: - limits without it - state of it - where to get patches MfG Goswin