Subject: Re: Large inodes for ffs
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/23/1999 23:20:48
On Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 11:11:04PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > >  * Are there some utilies (fsck?) to convert the FS to all-big inodes (if
> > > that's even wanted)? Or is this "mixed size" operation the usual mode,
> > > with only some inodes being "big" ones?
> > No. An fs is either a large inode fs or a small inode fs. Mixing and
> > matching in an fs would have been messy.
> 
> So I'll have to newfs my disk(s) when the next release with ACLs (or
> whatever) comes out to use them? I think it would be better to enable a
> soft(er) transition...

you dont HAVE to. YOu just wouldn't be able to use them.
	-is