Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 7/17/06, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 7/17/06, George Gowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > I think that this note in the book should be updated to show that the >> > has_journal output is expected, as it should be with an ext3 >> filesystem. >> >> Good point, George. I think this happened because the book just >> switched recently from telling people to create an ext2 filesytem to >> ext3 and the debugging commands weren't updated. I'll get this guy >> fixed up soon. > > Before I fix this up, I decided to actually see what features are > present (i.e., could potentially be listed). Reading the source for > e2fsprogs-1.39 in lib/ext2fs/ext2fs.h, I see that there are a lot more > features present than what's mentioned on the page. Using the struct > conversion in lib/e2p/feature.c (used in debugfs), it seems that the > supported features for the way we build e2fsprogs-1.39 is: > > dir_prealloc, has_journal, imagic_inodes, ext_attr, dir_index, > resize_inode, lazy_bg, sparse_super, large_file, filetype, > needs_recovery, journal_dev, meta_bg > > I know very little about ext3 filesystems. Some advice is requested > here. I certainly do not guarantee that all the options I listed above > are actually valid options for creating an ext3 filesystem. Maybe some > filesystem expert could shed some light here? > > The system I'm on lists needs_recovery and has_journal for the > features not shown in the LFS book.
Looking at the revision history, this discussion was added by Matt on 03/02/05. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/changeset/4715 This was in response to http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1047 That ticket says ext_attr resize_inode large_file are problem areas. I really like trac... -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
