Re: [PATCH 2.6.7] ext3 fill_super reporting

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Sat Jun 19 2004 - 18:20:07 EST


FabF <fabian.frederick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> This patch does the following :

> -Explicit max_per_group authorized for block, fragments, inodes

Sorry, but this is just too trivial to be worth the processing. The
compiler is perfectly capable of retaining the `blocksize * 8' result for
later use and this part of your patch actually increases the code size
slightly.

> -Remove groupmax recalculations

I don't know what this means.

> -When mounting ext2 or ^has_journal , we know filesystem is extX
> relevant.
>
>
> btw, I see a FIXME in journal_update for new journal creation.

There is no such thing as journal_update. I assume you're referring to the
handling of the "journal=update" mount option. Please be more careful when
identifying these things.

> Does it
> mean we should patch to have e.g. journalupdate=<filename> or that note
> is obsolete ?

No, I see no need to be able to convert an ext2 filesystem to ext3 within
the kernel. Nobody will bother to work on this.
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