>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> Alex Tomas wrote: JG> "ext3" will become more and more meaningless. It could mean >> _any_ of JG> several filesystem metadata variants, and the admin >> will have no clue JG> which variant they are talking to until they >> try to mount the blkdev JG> (and possibly fail the mount). >> debugfs <dev> -R stats | grep features ? JG> The question is, do you JG> a) expect users to run this magic command, and DTRT or JG> b) watch users boot w/ extents, accidentally do something silly like JG> writing data to a file, and become locked into a new subset of kernels? at the moment there is no way to "boot w/ extents". you must enable them by mount option. thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
