Re: [PATCH] larger inodes for ext3 at install time

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:40 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Larger inodes should help out with selinux and/or beagle attributes a bit
> (xattrs can be stored in-inode) and also makes upgrade to ext4 possible
> (which needs an in-inode extent list)

So the obvious question is "if this is so useful, why not have mke2fs do
the right thing without us having to pass more arguments to it"?

Jeremy