Hello, On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 08:04:20AM +0200, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I think part of the problem (besids lots of people being busy and on > > vacation) is it's not clear what your ext4 reader is going to be used > > for. As a result it's hard to give advice, not knowing what the > > requirements are for said reader. > > I think that I formulated my question incorrectly. I did not mean > "please give me advice over my specific application" this time, but > rather what I wanted was "please tell me a little about these various > features and also tell me if they are finished or still work in > progress, etc". Which is precisely what you answered already, so > thanks a lot =) > > > These features aren't quite fully supported yet. The inline data > > feature is probably closest to be being fully supported, when we > > release an the next major version of e2fsprogs. > > Just for completeness, which version number will that by? > > So, I understand that currently mkfs.ext4 cannot generate ext4 file > systems with this feature, correct? You need to checkout to e2fsprogs/pu branch. All patches for inline data are on this branch. BTW, the latest refinement of patches had been sent to the mailing list [1]. It would be great if you could give it a try. 1. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/39825 Regards, - Zheng > > Is there any other way to generate a file system with this feature > with a 3.8 kernel which will work? > > Just wondering if I can already start work on this or if I need to wait. > > thanks, > -- > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > -- > 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 -- 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
