On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 10:26:51AM +0200, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Hi > > How seriously meant is "V5 isn't experimental anymore"? "Fully supported" isn't a clear enough statement? > I ask because the man-page only mentions the syntax to enable it by > accident. A.k.a. the backport of ftype to V4. > (man-page of xfsprogs 3.2.0 in Debian-SID) That's intentional. V5 superblocks are an implementation detail that most users don't even need to know about. They care about the name of the features they are enabling at mkfs time, not the details of the on-disk implementation of those features. > And you still have to know that crc means V5. Why do you care about the format mkfs.xfs chooses for you - it's based on the features you requested. V5 isn't magically faster than V4 - there are many cases where it is slower due to CRC overhead or the overhead of the larger inode it requires. So unless you request a feature that requires it at mkfs time, you don't get that format. In a year or so we'll change the mkfs default so that CRCs are enabled by default, but we can't do that until all the distro's have had time to pick up a kernel that fully supports the CRC feature.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
