Hi, A stupid questions to ask: How to turn on "resize_inode" feature for ext3 file system created with old mke2fs? In Fedora Core 4 and Fedora Core 5 the new mke2fs program creates file systems with "resize_inode" feature on by default, but old file systems didn't have the "resize_inode" feature which were created with RH9 and Fedora core 1. I can not run a "tune2fs -O resize_inode" to make old file systems have the new feature after Linux OS upgraded from Fedora Core 1 to Fedora Core 5, neither can I re-create the file systems directly since I have important data on them. If there is a tool to upgrade old ext3 file systems so that they will also have "resize_inode" feature? Thanks. --- Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 04:58:57PM -0500, Stephen C. > Tweedie wrote: > > > > I think we're probably at the right point to do > so. Most people who are > > most likely to be affected have a reasonably > recent e2fsprogs now. On > > the Fedora side I'm seeing very few reports of > people bitten by > > e2fsprogs incompatibility, and more and more > instances of people bitten > > the other way by filesystems not performing as > well as expected due to > > missing dir_index flags. > > > > In case some people haven't noticed, a few days ago > I released a new > e2fsprogs release for e2fsprogs 1.39. New in this > release is a way > for distributions and system administrators to > control the default > filesystem features via the /etc/mke2fs.conf file. > > In the pre-release version, mke2fs is still using > the same behaviour > as before, but my plan is to change mke2fs to create > filesystems with > the dir_index and resize_inode features by default. > People who don't > like this default can always edit mke2fs.conf and > change things back. > > - Ted > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
