up fsck time. For more information, please see the web pages at
http://ext4.wiki.kernel.org.
- The ext4 filesystem will support mounting an ext3
- filesystem; while there will be some performance gains from
- the delayed allocation and inode table readahead, the best
- performance gains will require enabling ext4 features in the
- filesystem, or formatting a new filesystem as an ext4
- filesystem initially.
+ The ext4 filesystem supports mounting an ext3 filesystem; while there
+ are some performance gains from the delayed allocation and inode
+ table readahead, the best performance gains require enabling ext4
+ features in the filesystem using tune2fs, or formatting a new
+ filesystem as an ext4 filesystem initially. Without explicit enabling
+ of ext4 features, the on disk filesystem format stays fully backward
+ compatible.
To compile this file system support as a module, choose M here. The
module will be called ext4.