Re: Documentation for mke2fs -I ?

Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Jun 09, 2006  12:44 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> In e2fsprogs-1.39, mke2fs -I (for larger than 128-byte inodes) is still
> not documented in mke2fs.8.  Is it time to add it to the man page?

Ah, I was just thinking about this the other day.  I'd say yes, with an
explanation that it is only useful with kernels > 2.6.10 (or vendor
kernels that have patched in the EA-in-inode), though it isn't harmful
for any 2.6 kernel to have this enabled.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.
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