From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, adilger@turbolabs.com
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] [PATCH] UUID & volume labels support for reiserfs
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:44:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020109194430.A2058@namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020109155504.A4551@namesys.com> <52160000.1010591279@tiny> <20020109185826.A1680@namesys.com> <100150000.1010592449@tiny> <20020109192526.A1732@namesys.com> <145590000.1010594312@tiny>
In-Reply-To: <145590000.1010594312@tiny>
Hello!
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:38:32AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> >> >> This should not be applied until an updated (non beta) reiserfsprogs
> >> >> package that supports these features has been released.
> >> > Hey, reserving some space in superblock won't hurt.
> >> Reserving it is fine ;-) Using it isn't a good idea until the progs
> > So we did it (reserved) ;)
> > We do not use it. (generating of UUID does not count)
> Yes, generating a uuid and storing in the super block counts as using the
> field ;-)
Does filling something with zeroes counts as "using the field"? ;)
> The point is that we should never add something to the kernel until our
> utils package understands it. Yes, this is a simple case, but if we want
In fact, current reiserfsprogs understands these fields (look into the the struct super_block definition in
reiserfsprogs). It just cannot change content of the fields.
> to call reiserfs stable, there are some basic rules we need to start
> following.
Sure.
Bye,
Oleg
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-09 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-09 12:55 [PATCH] UUID & volume labels support for reiserfs Oleg Drokin
2002-01-09 15:47 ` [reiserfs-dev] " Chris Mason
2002-01-09 15:58 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-01-09 16:07 ` Chris Mason
2002-01-09 16:25 ` Oleg Drokin
2002-01-09 16:38 ` Chris Mason
2002-01-09 16:44 ` Oleg Drokin [this message]
2002-01-09 17:14 ` Chris Mason
2002-01-11 9:23 ` Oleg Drokin
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