projid32bit=1 default in xfsprogs-3.2.0
Ben Myers
bpm at sgi.com
Mon Oct 14 16:23:47 CDT 2013
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
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