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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
To: Takashi Sato <sho@tnes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: 'Andrew Morton' <akpm@osdl.org>,
	'Andreas Dilger' <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH 2/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:22:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1137619368.8706.42.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101c61c2e$59230b20$4168010a@bsd.tnes.nec.co.jp>

On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 21:54 +0900, Takashi Sato wrote:
> > CONFIG_LFS would become a specialised option for embedded systems and
> > for the minority of people who self-compile kernels.  I just don't
> > think that's worth the maintainability hassle.
> 
> I added CONFIG_LSF to use large filesystem over network with >2TB file
> even on a small system as CONFIG_LBD disable.  And I heard that some
> people dislike network filesystems depending on block device.
> 
> Trond, do you have comments about integrating CONFIG_LFS and
> CONFIG_LBD?

If you do merge CONFIG_LFS and CONFIG_LBD, then please throw out the
name CONFIG_LBD in favour of CONFIG_LFS, since the resulting option will
_not_ be block device specific.

Unless someone has some really good arguments against it, I too would
vote for hiding both options behind CONFIG_EMBEDDED.

Cheers,
  Trond


  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-18 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-05 10:04 [PATCH 2/3] Fix problems on multi-TB filesystem and file Takashi Sato
2006-01-13  2:33 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-13 13:50   ` Takashi Sato
2006-01-13 20:28     ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-13 20:51       ` Andreas Dilger
2006-01-13 21:19         ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-18 12:54           ` Takashi Sato
2006-01-18 21:22             ` Trond Myklebust [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-12-16 13:10 Takashi Sato

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