On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:10:06 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Bastian Venthur] >> And since some users might be happily running Debian for years without >> needing the Debian installer -- what can we do to let those users >> benefit from enhancements a new Debian Installer brings? > > As far as I know, neither the resize_inode nore the dir_index ext3 > option can be securely added after the file system is created.
According to <http://groups.google.co.uk/group/linux.debian.devel/msg/4d987ea414438e70>, it should be perfectly safe to add dir_index to an existing filesystem. However, to get the benefit of the indexing for already-created directories, e2fsck -D should be run after dir_index has been added; therefore it's probably best to just document the procedure in the release notes. -- Sam Morris http://robots.org.uk/ PGP key id 1024D/5EA01078 3412 EA18 1277 354B 991B C869 B219 7FDB 5EA0 1078 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
