Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-10-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Theodore Tso] The e2fsprogs-udeb package does include the mke2fs.conf file, so if the installer is using the latest e2fsprogs-udeb, it should be creating filesystems with the dir_index and resize_inode features. Soon the etch installer is using the latest mkfs.ext3 to create the file system.

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-25 Thread Jochen Voss
Hi, On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:24:09AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the installer's defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer. [...] Perhaps people could comment on other things like this which they've

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:02:34PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: For dir_index you have to take the FS offline, tune2fs and fsck it or you totaly corrupt it. Actually, that's not true. It's perfectly safe to run tune2fs on a mounted volume to

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-15 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:14AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Did they fix that? When I first looked into dir_index it was said that it would corrupt the directories since it would search the old linear dirs via hash and insert new entries by hash into linear dirs. Who said that? I

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Theodore Tso [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:53:14AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Did they fix that? When I first looked into dir_index it was said that it would corrupt the directories since it would search the old linear dirs via hash and insert new entries by

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-14 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 03:02:34PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: For dir_index you have to take the FS offline, tune2fs and fsck it or you totaly corrupt it. Actually, that's not true. It's perfectly safe to run tune2fs on a mounted volume to enable the dir_index feature. All directories

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-14 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:58:20PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: I don't know about the installer, but all filesystems I created with mke2fs recently also have resize_inode, which isn't even in the tune2fs manpage. It's not in the tune2fs man page because e2fsprogs doesn't currently support adding

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-09 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Mike Hommey] I don't know about the installer, but all filesystems I created with mke2fs recently also have resize_inode, which isn't even in the tune2fs manpage. The default was recently changed in /etc/mke2fs.conf. It make life with LVM a lot easier. :) Friendly, -- Petter Reinholdtsen

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-05 Thread Adrian von Bidder
On Thursday 03 August 2006 06:24, Nathanael Nerode wrote: So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the installer's defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer. http://wiki.debian.org/Sarge2EtchUpgrade Anyobdy (Marco d'Itri?) can add some comments regarding

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-05 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:05:10 +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 03 August 2006 06:24, Nathanael Nerode wrote: So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the installer's defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer.

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-05 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:24:09AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the installer's defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer. I first thought of this when I noticed the change in the default

Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....

2006-08-04 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the installer's defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer. I first thought of this when I noticed the change in the default tuning for ext2 partitions created by