Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:43:31 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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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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