On Jan 24, 2003 00:31 +0100, Christian wrote: > Andreas Dilger schrieb: > > Get a newer version of e2fsck (I think 1.32 is available). The 1.30-WIP > > version had a bug in it when regenerating htree indexes. Also, I'd suggest > > disabling htree entirely for now, since (a) your kernel doesn't support it > > yet, and (b) there are still some bugs in kernels that _do_ support it. > > ok, since i'll stick to 2.4.18 i want to disable HTREE indexes. but > please, can you/sb. enlighten me and tell me how to do this. the > manpages for mkfs.ext3 says nothin about htree :-( Use "tune2fs -O ^dir_index <dev>" to disable it. > and then, after clicking around on e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net, i saw this > in the release notes for 1.30: > > [...] > Fixed endian problems in the htree code for e2fsck and debugfs. > When byte-swapping a filesystem on a PPC architecture, byte-swap the > bitmaps since the historical big-endian ext2 variant had byte-swapped > bitmaps, and the ext2fs library assumes this. This fixes the regression > test suite on PPC machines. > [...] > > holy crap! i have created my fs with 1.30-WIP on a i386, now this fs is > used under ppc, with the said 1.27/1.30-WIP available. are these bad > news for me? Probably not, since your kernel doesn't use htree at all currently. > > Sadly, htree is enabled by default with newer e2fsprogs (even 1.32 I think) > > so it is kind of a pain. > > oh, but why...i mean: some people are really using this wonderful fs, > but i guess not every sysadmin is aware of tricky features of all tools. > hm, can't you just make something like --with-htree? Yes, that is the plan (just use "tune2fs -O dir_index <dev>" to turn it on). I guess Ted jumped the gun a bit by having a release of e2fsprogs where mke2fs enabled htree directories by default, but earlier testing had revealed no bugs... Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
