E2fsprogs features and patches

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Getting the e2fsprogs Git tree:
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'''Getting the e2fsprogs Git tree:'''
 
* git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
 
* git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
 
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Revision as of 18:49, 7 August 2007

Getting the e2fsprogs Git tree:

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Undo I/O manager:

  • Patches submitted to the mailing list by Aneesh Kumar
  • To be merged after 1.40
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/2826

64bit blk Support:

  • Patches submitted to the mailing list by Valerie Clement
  • Requires different binaries for doing 64bit support.
  • Unified binaries will most likely require API/ABI changes.
  • 64bit blk support requires 64bit binaries. Breaks on PPC64 32bit user-space env.
  • Ted T'so suggests a different approach:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/2125

Uninitialized block groups:

  • Girish Shilamkar recently submitted new patch to the mailing list
  • Kernel patches not in mainline yet. What's the hold up here?

i_version support:

  • Kernel patches not in mainline yet. Ongoing discussions.
  • Patches submitted?

Extents support:

  • Patches submitted?

Nano second support:

  • Patches submitted?

Greater than 32000 subdir support:

  • Girish Shilamkar recently submitted new patch to the mailing list
  • No archive link yet.
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