Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Ryusuke Konishi <> | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:57:23 +0900 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system | |
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:47:18 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote:
>> It has many TODO items:
>
>How stable is the on-disk format?
It's almost stable.
Hopefully I don't want to make any major change on the on-disk
format which affects the compatibility.
Some unsupported features like atime, EA, and ACLs should be
carefully confirmed before merging to the mainline though
I believe they don't lead to the major change.
>If the file system makes mainline
>your user base would likely increase significantly. Users then tend
>to have a reasonable exception that they can still mount old file systems
>later on newer kernels (although not necessarily the other way round)
Yes I know. Thank you for the important advice.
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