Re: Btrfs progs pre-release 4.3-rc1

[Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>]

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On 2015-11-07 08:58, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:14 PM, David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the kernel 4.3 was released yesterday, the btrfs-progs will follow at the end
>> of this week. I've tagged an rc1 from current devel branch. There are a lots of
>> small invisible changes and one change in the defaults:
>>
>> * mkfs: mixed mode is not forced anymore for devices smaller than 1 GiB
>
> Why?
>
> If it's still recommended to use mixed for small device, why not keep
> it the default and just permit the user to manually specify something
> else?
>
I think the reasoning here is that leaving it as the default would 
require adding another option (possibly, I don't know if -O !mixed-bg 
works to override the default).  Of course, properly educating people 
that they should be using this on small devices is going to be a much 
longer and more involved task than just adding an option...



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