On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 11:44 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Mick <[email protected]> [12-04-08 18:40]: > > [snip] > >>>>> Status quo: System with ext4 and no extended attributes. >>>>> Where I want to be: The same system with extended attributes. >>>>> >>>>> Way to go: No reformatting and mkfs and all that things. Only kernel >>>>> reconfiguring / recompiling / rebooting and emerging some tools. >>>>> >>>>> Possible? >>>> >>>> As others had said, this is possible. I used this guide: >>>> >>>> http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/643 >>>> >>>> You need basically to enable the ext4-only features: >>>> >>>> tune2fs -O extents,uninit_bg,dir_index <partition> >>> >>> Um, why? Ext3 had extended attribute support, and ISTR the ext4 code >>> being able to handle ext3 filesystems. >> >> Didn't we already had this discussion? You can mount an ext3 partition >> as ext4, and it will be treated as ext4, but it will keep bein fully >> backwards compatible with ext3 (i.e., you can still mount it as ext3). >> This, however, negates the purpose of using ext4, as you are not using >> extents: > > Sure, ext4 is a better filesystem than ext3. I'm not disputing that. > I'm disputing that. I'm disputing two things:
(bleh. Editing error. Omit phrase 'I'm disputing that') -- :wq
