On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 04:07:14PM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > Incorrect, because unless you explicitly enable the use of extents, > > the mere act of using a new kernel such as might be found on knoppix > > will not result in the filesystem utilizing the extent feature. > > And how shall the rescue/live CD know whether to use the feature? Because there will be a bit the superblock that the user will have to explicitly enable in order to get extents, so a new kernel on the rescue/live CD will no whether or not extents are allowed --- just as today, you have to explicitly enable hashed tree directory indexing with the command, tune2fs -O dir_index /dev/hdXXX. - Ted - 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
