There's a new set of ext2/3 patches for 2.4.21-pre5 available at: http://thunk.org/tytso/linux/extfs-2.4-update/extfs-update-2.4.21pre5-2 and in broken out form at: http://thunk.org/tytso/linux/extfs-2.4-update/broken-out-2.4.21pre5-2 New to this patch set include: * A kludge to help htree work well with Linux's NFS implementation * Allow the orlov allocator to be disabled via a mount option. * Improvements to the inode and block allocators by Andrew Morton * The bugfix for noatime on newly created inodes * An open by inode number extension (this was an old patch I developed a while ago, updated for the latest 2.4 kernels; nothing changes unless a filesystmem is mounted with the iopen or iopen_nopriv mount options; see Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt for more information) Also included in this patchset (over stock 2.4.21rc5) are: * dxdir/htree support for fast directory lookups * honor default mount options stored in the ext2/3 superblock. * forward compatibility: dynamic resizing * forward compatibility: larger inode size * backport of the Orlov allocator from Linux 2.5 - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
