From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add extent conversion support to chattr Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:46:47 -0400 Message-ID: <20080909114647.GA14052@infradead.org> References: <1220951542-1451-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tytso@mit.ed, adilger@sun.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:42165 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753068AbYIILqt (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 07:46:49 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1220951542-1451-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:42:22PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > This patch adds new option, -E to chattr. The -E option > is used to convert the ext3 format (non extent) file > to ext4 (extent) format. This can be used to migrate > the ext3 file system to ext4 file system. I think this is an awkware interfac. Chattr is supposed to set simple binary flags and not a front end to complicated filesystem conversions.