Re: what exactly is CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23 for?

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

tytso@mit.edu wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 01:54:42PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> As long as it doesn't contaminate the "core" then sure, but the more twisty
>> paths we have, the less likely any of them will be maintainable.  :)
>>
>> I just think that before adding more knobs, we need to take a long hard
>> look at what it does to the big picture.  When documenting ext4 upstream,
>> how many "if ... else if ... else if" clauses do we need?
> 
> Fair enough.
> 
> I'm all for proposals to get rid of some knobs, too, if we don't think
> they serve a purpose.  Recent examples that we've started deprecated
> include minixdf --- and I really wonder if we need t have explicit
> mount options to enable xattr and acl's.  Anyone object if we just
> enable them all the time by default?
> 
>               	    	    	    - Ted

I'd be happy with that.  It always bites me when I forget ;)

Do we still need auto_da_alloc as a disable-able option?

-Eric