Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1

Andreas Dilger
2006-10-06T05:53:07Z

On Oct 05, 2006 21:54 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:55:26 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:
> > If you then mount this filesystem with `-t ext4dev -o extents', it becomes
> > incompatible with the ext3 driver. Yes?
>
> I thought we s/ext4dev/ext4/ ??

No, we want to leave it at ext4dev for a while, to make it very clear
that this is still under development. We want to get the existing
patches upstream so they don't become completely unwieldy, and earlier
testing is also good, but it is not yet feature complete.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.