Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add new "development flag" to the ext4 filesystem

supersud501
2008-01-30T22:29:55Z

Theodore Tso wrote:
> As discussed on RFC, this flag is simply a generic "this is a
> crash/burn test filesystem" marker. If it is set, then filesystem
> code which is "in development" will be allowed to mount the
> filesystem. Filesystem code which is not considered ready for
> prime-time will check for this flag, and if it is not set, it will
> refuse to touch the filesystem.
>
> As we start rolling ext4 out to distro's like Fedora, et. al, this
> makes it less likely that a user might accidentally start using ext4
> on a production filesystem; a bad thing, since that will essentially
> make it be unfsckable until e2fsprogs catches up.
>
> - Ted
>
>

how can i set this "flag" on my filesystem? i've never set any flags
before so i just removed the code from ext4-module to mount my
filesystems, but setting the flag once would make it easier i think :)