Bug#669730: e2fsprogs: Bigalloc is not documented

2012-04-27 Thread Joshua Charles Campbell
Would also be good if mke2fs progs would warn about using -C without -O bigalloc as this does nothing. -- jccampbell@gmail.comGraduate Research Assistant Department of Computer Science University of Montana w...@wza.us

Bug#669730: e2fsprogs: Bigalloc is not documented

2012-04-21 Thread Ted Ts'o
Hi Touko, Note that bigalloc is still somewhat under development; there are number of bugs that are still in the kernel code, so at this point I can't really recommend non-developers use it in production yet... (Some of the bugs weren't evident at the time of the 1.42 release, or I would have add

Bug#669730: e2fsprogs: Bigalloc is not documented

2012-04-21 Thread Touko Korpela
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 alloc

Bug#669730: e2fsprogs: Bigalloc is not documented

2012-04-21 Thread Touko Korpela
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,