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

Andrew Morton
2006-10-06T06:04:07Z

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 23:53:05 -0600
Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

What features are missing?

Heck, what features does it have now? Guys, we cannot release this thing
to the public without telling them what it is, how to use it, where to get
the tools from and what the roadmap is.