On Oct 06, 2006 16:21 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote: > EXT4: Get rid of extents mount option > > Enabling an ext4 file system to use extents should be done with > 'tune2fs -O extents' or 'mke2fs -O extents', not with a mount option
I would agree that the presence of INCOMPAT_EXTENTS should imply the EXTENTS mount option, but it is also desirable to be able to turn this off for testing. In our internal patches we also have a "noextents" mount option to disable extents at runtime even if "extents" was given as a default mount option. So, I would leave most of the code as-is (with "test_opt(sb, EXTENTS)"), and just have ext3_fill_super() enable EXT4_MOUNT_EXTENTS if INCOMPAT_EXTENTS is set. This is a tiny bit tricky since parse_options() is called before the superblock is read, so I suspect we'll need a separate EXT4_MOUNT_NOEXTENTS to distinguish between no mount "extents" option given and "noextents" disabling this. The Opt_noextents handling would clear EXT4_MOUNT_EXTENTS, and vice versa. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
