Re: [PATCH v7 12/13] ext4: switch to multigrain timestamps

Jeff Layton
2023-09-20T12:26:46Z

On Wed, 2023-09-20 at 14:08 +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > I wasn't proposing to do that work for v6.6. For that, we absolutely
> > either need the mount option or to just revert the mgtime conversions.
>
> This sounds like you want me to do a full-on revert of your series but
> why? The conversion and changes support an actual use-case and are fine.
> It's a matter of whether we unconditionally expose it to users or not.
>

I don't, actually. I'm just mentioning that it's possible if we find the
mount option to be unpalatable.

> @Jan, what do you think?
>
> > My plan was to take a stab at doing this for a later kernel release.
>
> Ok.

If it works out, then we may be able to eventually remove the mount
option, but that is a separate project altogether.
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Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>