On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 03:30:37PM +0300, Touko Korpela wrote: > Package: e2fsprogs > Version: 1.42.2-2 > Severity: wishlist > > E2fsprogs 1.42 release notes says: > >This release of e2fsprogs has support for clustered allocation. This > >reduces the number of block (now cluster) bitmaps by allocating and > >deallocating space in contiguous power-of-2 collections of blocks, > >which are called clustered. This is a file system level feature, > >called 'bigalloc', which must be enabled when the file system is > >initially formatted. It is not backwards compatible with older > >kernels. > > mke2fs manpage should document how to create such filesystems and what is > minimum kernel version that support it
I managed to create bigalloc fs with "mkfs.ext4 -C<cluster-size> -O bigalloc" Filesystem seems to work (only lightly tested) under kernel 3.2.15 Shouldn't mkfs be smart and turn "bigalloc" feature on automatically when "-C" is used? Also should be documented issues that this feature causes in resizing support. Am I correct saying that off-line resizing isn't supported and on-line resizing needs at least kernel version 3.3? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
