On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 07:46:47AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:42:22PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > This patch adds new option, -E to chattr. The -E option > > is used to convert the ext3 format (non extent) file > > to ext4 (extent) format. This can be used to migrate > > the ext3 file system to ext4 file system. > > I think this is an awkware interfac. Chattr is supposed to set simple > binary flags and not a front end to complicated filesystem conversions. > Since chattr is used to set inode flags and since migrate can be looked at as setting extent flags (with the side effect that we change the inode format) I used chattr interface. Last patch i sent actually added a new command e4migrate. Let me know if you have any suggestion related to which command is best suited for setting extent flags. -aneesh -- 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
