On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:29:05PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
> However, tunefs(8) and mkfs(8) is generally understood to make
> physical changes. Why not "tunefs -extents" to turn them on? It's
> completely analogous to "tunefs -J", will fit everyone's expectation,
> and won't surprise people. "mkfs -extents" does the same thing.
Heck, if you have code to convert extents back to regular ext3,
"tunefs -noextents" works and is properly symmetric.
Joel
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