From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932603AbWGAJmJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 05:42:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932567AbWGAJmJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 05:42:09 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:38160 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932603AbWGAJmI (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Jul 2006 05:42:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:42:06 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Theodore Tso , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Proposal and plan for ext2/3 future development work Message-ID: <20060701094206.GA17588@stusta.de> References: <20060630151432.GA21675@thunk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060630151432.GA21675@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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" 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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed