From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 42/42] ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:58:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081011225826.GD12662@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F12427.5090801@redhat.com>
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 05:09:43PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> Yep, we've discussed that and I think it'll get added.
>
It did get added in the final version that I pushed to Linus (and was
accepted into mainline this afternoon). It's enabled via a new
Kconfig option:
config EXT4DEV_COMPAT
bool "Enable ext4dev compatibility"
depends on EXT4_FS
help
Starting with 2.6.28, the name of the ext4 filesystem was
renamed from ext4dev to ext4. Unfortunately there are some
lagecy userspace programs (such as klibc's fstype) have
"ext4dev" hardcoded.
To enable backwards compatibility so that systems that are
still expecting to mount ext4 filesystems using ext4dev,
chose Y here. This feature will go away by 2.6.31, so
please arrange to get your userspace programs fixed!
I've submitted a fix which fixes things for klibc's fstype program
(which is needed because Debian and Ubuntu apparently use klibc's
fstype in their initrd) to the klibc program. There was also a bug in
blkid which prevented the automatic ext4dev->ext4 fallback from
working correctly, which Eric has fixed and which will be in e2fsprogs
1.41.3 (to be released very shortly).
The only other problem may arise on distro's that depend on vol_id for
mount/fsck, but I've been trying to convice distributions not to
depend on something where you have to reboot before freshly made swap
partitions and filesystems are can be resolved via LABEL= or UUID=
(seems rather too Windows-like for my taste, but whatever), and at
this point I'm reasonably certain that Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and
RHEL will all do the right thing, and I've given up on the rest;
they'll see the light eventually. :-)
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-11 22:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 4:05 [PATCH 0/42] Ext4 patches queued up for the 2.6.28 merge window Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 01/42] percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set() Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 02/42] ext4: Add printk priority levels to clean up checkpatch warnings Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 03/42] ext4: Fix long long " Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 04/42] ext4: Fix whitespace checkpatch warnings/errors Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 05/42] ext4: invalidate pages if delalloc block allocation fails Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 06/42] ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocks Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 07/42] ext4: Retry block reservation Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 08/42] ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 09/42] ext4: Switch to non delalloc mode when we are low on free blocks count Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 10/42] ext4: Signed arithmetic fix Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 11/42] ext4: Fix ext4 nomballoc allocator for ENOSPC Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 12/42] ext4: Don't add the inode to journal handle until after the block is allocated Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 13/42] ext4: Retry block allocation if we have free blocks left Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 14/42] ext4: truncate block allocated on a failed ext4_write_begin Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 15/42] ext4: Properly update i_disksize Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 16/42] ext4: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 17/42] Update flex_bg free blocks and free inodes counters when resizing Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 18/42] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats more carefully Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 19/42] jbd2: clean up how the journal device name is printed Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 20/42] ext4: add missing unlock in ext4_check_descriptors() on error path Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 21/42] ext4: elevate write count for migrate ioctl Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 22/42] ext4: hook the ext3 migration interface to the EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS ioctl Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 23/42] ext4: Renumber EXT4_IOC_MIGRATE Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 24/42] ext4: use percpu data structures for lg_prealloc_list Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 25/42] ext4/jbd2: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write to the superblock Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 26/42] ext4: Don't use 'struct dentry' for internal lookups Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 27/42] ext4: move /proc setup and teardown out of mballoc.c Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 28/42] ext4: Combine proc file handling into a single set of functions Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 29/42] ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 30/42] ext4: Remove old legacy block allocator Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 31/42] ext4: fix initialization of UNINIT bitmap blocks Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 32/42] jbd2: abort instead of waiting for nonexistent transaction Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 33/42] ext4: Add debugging markers that can be used by systemtap Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 34/42] jbd2: Fix buffer head leak when writing the commit block Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 35/42] ext4: fix xattr deadlock Theodore Ts'o
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2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 36/42] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 37/42] ocfs2: fiemap support Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 38/42] generic block based fiemap implementation Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 39/42] Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 40/42] Update ext4 MAINTAINERS file Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 41/42] ext4: Avoid double dirtying of super block in ext4_put_super() Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:06 ` [PATCH 42/42] ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4 Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-11 22:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-11 22:09 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-11 22:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-11 22:58 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-10-11 23:08 ` Grant Coady
2008-10-12 1:06 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-09 8:18 ` [PATCH 29/42] ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-10-09 8:52 ` [PATCH 01/42] percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set() Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-09 16:52 ` Theodore Tso
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