From: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho Subject: Re: Beginner questions about ext4 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 17:23:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20130623115953.GA16193@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:37979 "EHLO mail-pb0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752807Ab3GAPXN (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Jul 2013 11:23:13 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f44.google.com with SMTP id uo1so4977984pbc.17 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:23:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20130623115953.GA16193@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Historically, before flex_bg, the allocation bitmaps and inode tables > for a particular block group had to be located within that block > group, per the image that you've referenced above. Thanks, but I'm still not sure: Are all groups flexible groups when FLEX_BG feature is activated? If not, I wonder how a reader will recognize which groups were merged ... thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho