On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:20:00PM -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > To be honest, I've been lazy and I haven't even tried to get the new > e2fsprogs. I just grabbed the latest from the mercurial repository, > http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/e2fsprogs-hacking.html , and it doesn't > work for me either. Ted? > > Hold off on the patch until we figure it out. :-) I've been busy cleaning up the userspace extents patches before I'm willing to accept them into the mainline e2fsprogs tree. So it's not yet in Mercurial yet. It's coming soon; but in the meantime, my interim patchset which I've been using to hack on the extents patches plus signed-char-powerpc-dirhash problem can be found at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs-interim Both a rolled-up patch file plus a broken-out tar.gz file are available there. The current version on the above URL is e2fsprogs-1.39-tyt1. Note that you will have to take the f_extents/image.gz from the broken-out tar file and copy it into tests/f_extents/image.gz or the f_extents regression test will fail. In addition, the f_lotsbad test regression test is also known to fail in 1.39-tyt1, and that regression test failure can be safely ignored for now. This should be good enough for the extents patches that Shaggy has been queuing up. - Ted P.S. Before we add the extents patch, I just thought of one additional change that might be good to add. Could we add an u32 field in the superblock which counts the number of files with extents, and is automatically incremented and decremented as necessary by the kernel, and which can be checked by e2fsck? It would be really useful for making it easy for tune2fs to be able to tell if it can safely remove the extents feature from the filesystem, or whether it should refuse such a request. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
