On Thursday 14 June 2012, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Ted Ts'o wrote: > > > The reason why I talk about making it work automatically at mke2fs > > time is that the vast majority of created file systems (where a > > specially created fs by a handset vendor counts as "one", even if it > > then gets stamped on millions of devices), the end user is someone > > naive/oblivious, so the right thing has to happen by default in the > > common case of running mke2fs on the storage device where the file > > system gets used. > > Absolutely. However it is fair to say that less than 0.01% of total end > users will even think of running mke2fs on their device. So another > strategy that can be executed at run time when the fs is live would be > required too. The trouble is that detecting the erase block size requires us to write specific patterns to the device, which is generally a bad idea after the file system has been created. I think the best we can do is * default to "unspecified" as before * if "unspecified", make the file system ask the block device. in case of eMMC, that will usually be reliable * Add an option to mkfs and tunefs to hardcode a specific size for users that know the size and can't rely on the blockdev reporting it correctly to the file system. * Add an option to mkfs to autodetect the size for the drive it's run on. Arnd -- 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
