Re: F9 (bug?) Superblock features different from backup

[Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 17:15 -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Ahmed Kamal wrote:
> > Just out of curiosity, could you let me know what kind of changes the
> > kernel makes to the superblock without asking first! That sounds interesting
> 
> sure, things like the first time a "large" (> 2G file) is written it
> will set a flag to that effect.
> 
> Or the first time an extent-based file is created on ext4.
> 
> We've talked about removing these, actually, and requiring the flags to
> be set at mkfs time, or via tune2fs, if you wish to use the feature,
> rather than silently turning them on.

But make that the default for new filesystems pretty please kthxbye ;-).

Nils
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