Re: projid32bit=1 default in xfsprogs-3.2.0

[Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 08:16:59AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 11:30:13AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > The commit:
> > 
> > f3edb66a mkfs.xfs: validate options for CRCs up front.
> > 
> > unintentionally (?) defaulted to projid32bit=1 for all filesystems
> > at mkfs time.
> 
> It wasn't unintentional, I just forgot to document it.
> 
> > Support for 32 bit project IDs has been present since kernel v2.6.37.
> 
> Right, so taking the usual approach to these things, all the
> distro's now ship kernels that support 32 bit project IDs, so there
> is no reason for mkfs.xfs in a new xfsprogs release not to set it
> by default.

I'm not seeing much downside to turning on 32 bit project IDs by default in
3.2.0.  Sounds good to me.

-Ben