From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.20-jam0
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:02:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021130150252.GG2517@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6u3cpj3xzx.fsf@zork.zork.net>; from sneakums@zork.net on Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 15:58:42 +0100
On 2002.11.30 Sean Neakums wrote:
>commence J.A. Magallon quotation:
>
>> Thanks, I will add it...
>> BTW, who puts names to options ? Wouldn't be more intuitive to add options
>> like 'ialloc_std' or 'ialloc_orlov' ? Too late to change this ?
>
>There isn't exactly a whole lot of contention in the mount-options
>namespace. And neither orlov not ialloc_orlov is in any way
>"intuitive". However, orlov is more guessable, to my mind, than
>ialloc_orlov.
>
Well, what I think is more understandable when you see a /etc/fstab
would be something like 'inode_allocator=std' or 'inode_allocator=orlov' or
'inode_allocator=xxxxx' if something new appears.
--
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es> \ Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es \ It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.4.20-jam0 (gcc 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2-4mdk))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-30 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-11-29 23:38 [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.20-jam0 J.A. Magallon
2002-11-30 0:47 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-30 14:45 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-11-30 14:58 ` Sean Neakums
2002-11-30 15:02 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2002-11-30 22:15 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-30 6:36 ` hugang
2002-11-30 14:58 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-11-30 17:07 ` Mike Galbraith
2002-11-30 17:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2002-11-30 23:36 ` J.A. Magallon
2002-12-01 1:55 ` J.A. Magallon
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