Re: [PATCH v7 12/13] ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 12/13] ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 08:26:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <08b4e3275bad93ed99ea2892bd1950ff401ab912.camel@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230920-kahlkopf-tonlage-ab6ca571465e@brauner>

On Wed, 2023-09-20 at 14:08 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > I wasn't proposing to do that work for v6.6. For that, we absolutely
> > either need the mount option or to just revert the mgtime conversions.
> 
> This sounds like you want me to do a full-on revert of your series but
> why? The conversion and changes support an actual use-case and are fine.
> It's a matter of whether we unconditionally expose it to users or not.
> 

I don't, actually. I'm just mentioning that it's possible if we find the
mount option to be unpalatable.

> @Jan, what do you think?
> 
> > My plan was to take a stab at doing this for a later kernel release.
> 
> Ok.

If it works out, then we may be able to eventually remove the mount
option, but that is a separate project altogether.
-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>