From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
"Amir G." <amir73il@users.sourceforge.net>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 00/30] Ext4 snapshots - core patches
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 09:59:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DEE2EB6.2050901@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110606204028.GD20818@thunk.org>
On 06/06/2011 04:40 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 06:05:24PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
>> Well, we can also start ditching some unused features and tunnables, or
>> make it default and remove it from documentation so people will not use
>> it and we can get rid of some of the options in the future. For examle
>>
>> orlov
>> oldalloc
>> bsddf
>> minixdf
> I tried deprecated bsddf/minixdf, and got a complaint from a user who
> said they were using it. Linus's rule is, "though shalt not break
> backwards compatibility", so I have up on it. Realistically, the
> difference between these two is so small it's not really a big deal.
>
> Dropping the old allocator is probably a good idea at this point. I
> very much doubt anyone is using it.
>
> - Ted
>
Can we argue that the user base that uses these ancient options can simply
continue to use them in ext3 and use that fig leaf to kill them in ext4 going
forwards?
Ric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-07 13:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 74+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-09 16:41 [PATCH RFC 00/30] Ext4 snapshots - core patches amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 01/30] ext4: EXT4 snapshots (Experimental) amir73il
2011-06-06 14:50 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-06-07 9:28 ` Amir G.
2011-06-07 10:42 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-06-07 13:20 ` Amir G.
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 02/30] ext4: snapshot debugging support amir73il
2011-06-06 15:08 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-06-07 9:59 ` Amir G.
2011-06-07 10:49 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 03/30] ext4: snapshot hooks - inside JBD hooks amir73il
2011-06-06 15:53 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-06-06 16:08 ` Amir G.
2011-06-06 19:01 ` Amir G.
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 04/30] ext4: snapshot hooks - block bitmap access amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 05/30] ext4: snapshot hooks - delete blocks amir73il
2011-06-07 11:24 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-06-07 13:24 ` Amir G.
2011-06-07 13:32 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 06/30] ext4: snapshot hooks - move data blocks amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 07/30] ext4: snapshot hooks - direct I/O amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 08/30] ext4: snapshot hooks - move extent file data blocks amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 09/30] ext4: snapshot file amir73il
2011-06-02 11:52 ` Amir G.
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 10/30] ext4: snapshot file - read through to block device amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 11/30] ext4: snapshot file - permissions amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 12/30] ext4: snapshot file - store on disk amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 13/30] ext4: snapshot file - increase maximum file size limit to 16TB amir73il
2011-06-02 11:47 ` Amir G.
2011-06-03 0:48 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-06-03 4:45 ` Amir G.
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 14/30] ext4: snapshot block operations amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 15/30] ext4: snapshot block operation - copy blocks to snapshot amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 16/30] ext4: snapshot block operation - move " amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 17/30] ext4: snapshot control amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 18/30] ext4: snapshot control - fix new snapshot amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 19/30] ext4: snapshot control - reserve disk space for snapshot amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 20/30] ext4: snapshot journaled - increase transaction credits amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 21/30] ext4: snapshot journaled - implement journal_release_buffer() amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 22/30] ext4: snapshot journaled - bypass to save credits amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 23/30] ext4: snapshot journaled - trace COW/buffer credits amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 24/30] ext4: snapshot list support amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 25/30] ext4: snapshot race conditions - concurrent COW operations amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 26/30] ext4: snapshot race conditions - tracked reads amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 27/30] ext4: snapshot exclude - the exclude bitmap amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 28/30] ext4: snapshot cleanup amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 29/30] ext4: snapshot cleanup - shrink deleted snapshots amir73il
2011-05-09 16:41 ` [PATCH RFC 30/30] ext4: snapshot rocompat - enable rw mount amir73il
2011-06-06 13:08 ` [PATCH RFC 00/30] Ext4 snapshots - core patches Lukas Czerner
2011-06-06 14:32 ` Amir G.
2011-06-06 15:31 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-06-06 16:05 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-06-06 20:40 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-06-07 13:59 ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2011-06-07 15:37 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-06-06 16:33 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-06-06 16:42 ` Eric Sandeen
2011-06-06 19:58 ` Lukáš Czerner
2011-06-06 18:25 ` Amir G.
2011-06-06 20:55 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-06-07 5:17 ` Andreas Dilger
2011-06-07 5:58 ` Amir G.
2011-06-07 10:09 ` Lukas Czerner
2011-06-07 13:01 ` Amir G.
2011-06-07 13:50 ` Ric Wheeler
2011-06-07 14:39 ` Amir G.
2011-06-07 6:40 ` Amir G.
2011-06-07 15:26 ` Josef Bacik
2011-06-07 16:46 ` Amir G.
2011-06-07 16:54 ` Josef Bacik
2011-06-07 18:22 ` Amir G.
2011-06-07 17:14 ` Sunil Mushran
2011-06-07 17:30 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-06-07 17:54 ` Amir G.
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