ext4: Update documentation to remind users to update mke2fs.conf

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 80e193d82e2e..0d5394920a31 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ Mailing list: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
 
     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/ext2/e2fsprogs.git
 
+  - Note that it is highly important to install the mke2fs.conf file
+    that comes with the e2fsprogs 1.41.x sources in /etc/mke2fs.conf. If
+    you have edited the /etc/mke2fs.conf file installed on your system,
+    you will need to merge your changes with the version from e2fsprogs
+    1.41.x.
+
   - Create a new filesystem using the ext4dev filesystem type:
 
         # mke2fs -t ext4dev /dev/hda1