From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: set a compat flag when setting default subvol Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:21 -0500 Message-ID: <20091217213021.GA2804@think> References: <20091217214024.GC4122@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Josef Bacik Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20091217214024.GC4122@dhcp231-156.rdu.redhat.com> List-ID: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 04:40:24PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote: > This is just to mark the fs that it's been tinkered with to set the default > subvolume. It's a compatible change because older kernels will just ignore the > default setting and mount the same thing they always have. Thanks, I actually don't think this is a compatible change. If someone mounts under 2.6.33 and gets one filesystem, they will expect the same FS under 2.6.32. We should make sure they get what they expect or a friendly error message. -chris