Re: [PATCH] ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:12:33PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
>> On Mon 16-11-09 16:50:49, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>> Users on the list recently complained about differences across
>>> filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay.
>>>
>>> In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is
>>> perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make
>>> that an alias for ext3.
>>>
>>> Also show this status in /proc/mounts
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
>>   OK, provided ext4 will have the same change, I'm fine with the patch.
>> So how is it with ext4?
> 
> Queued for the next merge window.  I did slightly change the
> documentation in Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt to make
> "norecovery" be the canonnical option name, since that's what Eric had
> show up in /proc/mounts.  That seems fair, we might as well try to add
> consistency between different Linux filesystems.
> 
> 							- Ted

FWIW, the nilfs folks just added an option to do the same thing, and
I steered them towards "norecovery" - we may just get some consistency,
yet!

-Eric