Documenting the ext3 -> ext4 transition

Documenting the ext3 -> ext4 transition

[Darrick J. Wong]

Hi all,

Now that ext3.ko is going away, Ted and I talked about having a wiki page to
talk about the transition (to using ext4.ko for ext3 FS) and potential upgrade
paths.  There already was a section in the HOWTO, but I promoted it to its
own page and a link from the front page:

Please take a look and suggest/make changes:

https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/UpgradeToExt4

--D

Re: Documenting the ext3 -> ext4 transition

[Andreas Dilger]

On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Now that ext3.ko is going away, Ted and I talked about having a wiki
> page to talk about the transition (to using ext4.ko for ext3 FS) and
> potential upgrade paths.  There already was a section in the HOWTO,
> but I promoted it to its own page and a link from the front page:
> 
> Please take a look and suggest/make changes:
> 
> https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/UpgradeToExt4

I thought is that ext3 had dir_index enabled by default, so it isn't
totally correct that this feature needs to be enabled when upgrading
from ext3 to ext4.

Cheers, Andreas