Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Andreas Dilger <[email protected]>
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On Jun 09, 2006 19:45 -0700, Nicholas Miell wrote: > I think changing all of this mess to: > > [root@localhost root]# tune2fs -O extents /dev/whatever > WARNING: Enabling extents on /dev/whatever will make this filesystem > unreadable in Linux kernels versions before 2.6.19! > Are you sure you want to do this? <y/n> > > [root@localhost root]# tune2fs -O ^extents /dev/whatever > WARNING: Disabling extents on /dev/whatever requires you to run e2fsck > on this filesystem before it can be used again! > Are you sure you want to do this? <y/n> > > might assuage many of the fears presented in this thread. If that were true, then I'd be happy to make this the barrier to entry. Sadly, I don't think that is the only issue, but I'm happy to be shown to be wrong. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html