Re: Stuff the installer does which isn't done on upgrade....
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 12:24:09AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> So upgraded systems don't get the benefits of certain changes to the installer's
> defaults, or defaults in programs used by the installer.
>
> I first thought of this when I noticed the change in the default tuning for
> ext2 partitions created by mke2fs. Notably, dir_index and filetype are turned
> on by default now; this was not always the case.
I don't know about the installer, but all filesystems I created with
mke2fs recently also have resize_inode, which isn't even in the tune2fs
manpage.
Mike
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