On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 12:40:11PM -0500, Eric Whitney wrote: > Hi: > > I recommend not backporting this patch or the other three patches apparently > intended to support it to 4.19 stable. All these patches are related to > ext4's bigalloc feature, which was experimental as of 4.19 (expressly noted by > contemporary versions of e2fsprogs) and also suffered from a number of bugs. > A significant number of additional patches that were applied to 5.X kernels > over time would have to be backported to 4.19 for the patch below to function > correctly. It's really not worth doing that given bigalloc's experimental > status as of 4.19 and the very rare combination of the bigalloc and inline > features. All now reverted, thanks! greg k-h
