On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 01:49:37PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > This mount option is largely superfluous, and in fact the way it was > implemented was buggy; if a filesystem which did not have the extents > feature flag was mounted -o extents, the filesystem would attempt to > create and use extents-based file even though the extents feature flag > was not eabled. The simplest thing to do is to nuke the mount option > entirely. It's not all that useful to force the non-creation of new > extent-based files if the filesystem can support it. > Ext4 -> Ext3 migration story is to mount the filesystem with -o noextents and copy the file around. If we remove the -o noextents options how do we force the creation of non extent format files ? -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
