[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo-sources-2.6.29-r5 & ext4

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

Daniel Iliev wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yesterday I decided to try gentoo-sources again. I was using vanilla,
> because of ext4 - when it was declared stable, gentoo-sources still was
> at the ext4dev phase (a version or so behind the upstream as expected).
> Yesterday, when migrating from vanilla-2.6.28 to gentoo-sources-2.6.29-5
> I haven't noticed any new FS related options except for the btrfs which
> I don't need, thus have disabled.
> 
> Kernel compiles w/o errors, but when booted it panics with error msg
> like "unknown mount option ``extents''".
> 
> Yes, I have "extents" among the following options in fstab and
> they work with vannila-2.6.28
> 
> "/dev/md1  /  ext4 stripe=2048,commit=2,extents,orlov,delalloc,\
> errors=remount-ro,nodiratime,noatime 0 1"
> 
> Ideas, suggestions?

The extents mount option has been removed from 2.6.29:

http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-ext4/2009/1/6/4613614