From: Jan Engelhardt Subject: ext4: odd values for mkfs.ext4 -i Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:07:17 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:36053 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753357AbZCCXHU (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Mar 2009 18:07:20 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sovereign.computergmbh.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3955E40036D6 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 00:07:17 +0100 (CET) Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Is it ok that e2fsprogs-1.41.4 allows odd values for -i, such as in `mkfs.ext4 -i 2047`? If inodes were arranged every 2047 bytes, they would not be aligned, which would mean one extra sector would have to be read every now and then, does not it? Should odd values be rejected? [BTW: this mailing list address should be mentioned at e2fsprogs.sf.net] Jan