Re: [PATCH v3] btrfs: Introduce new mount option to disable tree log replay

From: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.net>
To: "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
	Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>,
	linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] btrfs: Introduce new mount option to disable tree log replay
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 14:01:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1450270909.6259.52.camel@scientia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56715FBF.9090808@gmail.com>

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On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 07:57 -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> No, because we should ease the transition from other filesystems to
> the 
> greatest extent reasonably possible.  It should be clearly documented
> as 
> an alias for compatibility with ext{3,4}, and that it might go away
> in 
> the future.

Where's the need for an easy migration path? Such option wouldn't be
used by default and even if, people would need to change their
fstab/etc. anyway (ext->btrfs).

The note that things go away never really work out that easy... people
start to use it, rely on it... and sooner or later you have a situation
as with atime, that you basically never can get rid of it.

IMHO an alias here would be just ambiguous.

Cheers,
Chris.

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