Re: [PATCH] larger inodes for ext3 at install time

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On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 10:25 -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > Jeremy Katz wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:40 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >>> Larger inodes should help out with selinux and/or beagle attributes a bit
> >>> (xattrs can be stored in-inode) and also makes upgrade to ext4 possible
> >>> (which needs an in-inode extent list)
> >> So the obvious question is "if this is so useful, why not have mke2fs do
> >> the right thing without us having to pass more arguments to it"?
> > 
> > Ok, I can do that if you prefer.  Although if you don't plan to migrate
> > to ext4, and don't use xattrs, you might want the smaller inodes to save
> > space, since inode overhead on ext$FOO is nontrivial.
> > 
> > I'm not sure where upstream is going on this one, but I can sort it out
> > if you'd rather not have it in anaconda.
> 
> Why not do something like the patches at 
> http://people.redhat.com/pjones/fsprofile/ instead, so next time the 
> ext3 guys come up with a new option, we won't have to explicitly add 
> support for it as well?
> 
> Granted, to be truly useful we either need "include" directives in 
> mke2fs.conf or a command line argument to specify a config file.  Either 
> (or both) would allow a user to put mke2fs.conf in an updates.img , and 
> so they could define their own options that way.

This only makes a difference if e2fsprogs ships a config file that has
the new options included in it.  If they don't, we *still* have to make
change, just now it's hidden away in some copy of a config file which is
going to atrophy over time

Jeremy

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