Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:36:54 -0500 (CDT) | From | Chase Venters <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Joel Becker wrote:
> Heck, forget the name, just make the breakage more explicit. Do > it at mkfs/tunefs time. "tunefs -extents" or "mkfs -t ext3 -extents". > A mount option assumes that you can do with or without it. If you do it > once, you can mount the next time without it and stuff Just Works. Even > htree follows this. A clean unmount leaves a clean directory structure > that a non-htree driver can use.
I suggested this somewhere back in the thread and it got no play. What's the problem with doing things this way? (Aside from it being a compromise that doesn't automatically result in a new ext4)
Of course, there are a few debates going on here. Only one of them is about compatibility.
> > Joel >
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