On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:14:32AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 12:39:48PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]> writes:
> > >
> > > 1) The creation of a new filesystem codebase in the 2.6 kernel tree in
> > > /usr/src/linux/fs/ext4 that will initially register itself as the
> > > "ext3dev"
> >
> > Why not call it ext4 from the beginning too? Calling the directory
> > differently from the file system can only cause confusion.
> >
> > I assume if it's marked very experimental people who value their data
> > will avoid it for the time being.
>
> There were a lot of people who were concerned that simply marking it
> CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL might not be enough for to make it very clear that
> the filesystem format is still changing. In order to address this
> concern, we want /etc/fstab to make it abundantly clear that the
> filesystem format itself is not necessarily stable, and that new
> features are being added that might not be supported on older
> kernels.
>...
What about a dependency on CONFIG_BROKEN?
This will require everyone who wants to use it to manually edit the
Kconfig file for removing the dependency - which sounds like a good
idea.
> - Ted
cu
Adrian
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