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Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
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From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
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 JG> "ext3" will become more and more meaningless.  It could mean _any_ of 
 JG> several filesystem metadata variants, and the admin will have no clue 
 JG> which variant they are talking to until they try to mount the blkdev 
 JG> (and possibly fail the mount).

debugfs <dev> -R stats | grep features ?


thanks, Alex