Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 1 Jul 2006 11:42:06 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Proposal and plan for ext2/3 future development work |
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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" <tytso@mit.edu> 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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