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Alex Tomas wrote: > JG> "ext3" will become more and more meaningless. It could mean _any_ of > JG> several filesystem metadata variants, and the admin will have no clue > JG> which variant they are talking to until they try to mount the blkdev > JG> (and possibly fail the mount). > > debugfs <dev> -R stats | grep features ? The question is, do you a) expect users to run this magic command, and DTRT or b) watch users boot w/ extents, accidentally do something silly like writing data to a file, and become locked into a new subset of kernels? The simple act of writing data to a file has become an _irrevocable filesystem upgrade event_. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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