Hi, On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 02:20 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > which implies matching changes to mkfs.ext2 and possibly mount.. > > The extents format doesn't need any support from mke2fs. Currently this > is activated by a mount option "-o extents", so it won't be used until > a system administrator actively enables it. It does need support from e2fsprogs, though; patches have been posed to ext2-devel and are available on http://www.bullopensource.org/ext4/index.html though there is work left to do, especially to improve fsck's ability to repair partially-damaged extent trees. --Stephen - 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
