E2fsprogs features and patches

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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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