[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [PATCH 5/5] ocfs2-tools: add xattr support in mkfs.ocfs2

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Fri Nov 7 15:36:45 PST 2008


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 05:27:13PM +0800, Tiger Yang wrote:
> This patch add support for new feature xattr in mkfs.ocfs2.
> Xattr is an incompatible feature, need option --fs-features=xattr
> or --fs-feature-level=max-features to enable it.

	I see what you mean by saying "this is just to get mkfs"
working.  When we finally do make the tools changes, we don't want mkfs
to create filesystems until libocfs2 can handle them and fsck can fix
them.
	But for the mkfs part, this patch looks fine.

Joel

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