From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751458AbWFIQdB (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:33:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751456AbWFIQdB (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:33:01 -0400 Received: from [80.71.248.82] ([80.71.248.82]:31380 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751455AbWFIQdA (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:33:00 -0400 X-Comment-To: "Mike Snitzer" To: "Mike Snitzer" Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , "Alex Tomas" , "Christoph Hellwig" , "Mingming Cao" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060609091327.GA3679@infradead.org> <44898476.80401@garzik.org> <4489874C.1020108@garzik.org> <44899113.3070509@garzik.org> <170fa0d20606090921x71719ad3m7f9387ba15413b8f@mail.gmail.com> From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:33:18 +0400 In-Reply-To: <170fa0d20606090921x71719ad3m7f9387ba15413b8f@mail.gmail.com> (Mike Snitzer's message of "Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:21:39 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> Mike Snitzer (MS) writes: MS> precludes their ability to boot older kernels (steps can be taken to MS> make them well aware of this). The "real world situation" you refer MS> to, while hypothetically valid, isn't something informed MS> ext3-with-extents users will _ever_ elect to do. one who needs/wants to go back may get rid of extents by: a) remounting w/o extents option b) copying new-fashion-style files so that copies use blockmap c) dropping extents feature in superblock thanks, Alex