From: Diego Calleja Subject: Re: Ext4 documentation Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:00:07 +0100 Message-ID: <20081223100007.6b79cd27@diego-desktop> References: <20081222235841.7aaaef93@diego-desktop> <20081222234456.GW5000@webber.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f21.google.com ([209.85.218.21]:43286 "EHLO mail-bw0-f21.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752882AbYLWI61 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:58:27 -0500 Received: by bwz14 with SMTP id 14so9438621bwz.13 for ; Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:58:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20081222234456.GW5000@webber.adilger.int> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: El Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:44:56 -0700, Andreas Dilger es= cribi=C3=B3: > Looks pretty good, thanks for writing this up. Minor notes: > - While > 16TB is supported by ext4 disk formats, the mke2fs/e2fsck c= ode > to support this is not in any released e2fsprogs yet > - I don't think the journal async commit blocks are enabled by defaul= t, so > the "20% speedup" is not available yet. There is some work that > needs to be done to make this feature 100% safe in case of corrupti= on. > - I'm not sure if enabling flex_bg on an existing ext3 filesystem is = useful > - you don't mention anything about the required e2fsprogs version. I > _think_ (someone should confirm) that e2fsprogs-1.41.3 is the minim= um > version that anyone should use. Thanks, I've mentioned all this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html