From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Kleikamp Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Register ext3dev filesystem Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:08:43 -0500 Message-ID: <1155240524.12082.14.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> References: <1155172642.3161.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060810092021.GB11361@harddisk-recovery.com> <20060810175920.GC19238@thunk.org> <44DB8EBE.6060003@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Theodore Tso , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mingming Cao , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Erik Mouw Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <44DB8EBE.6060003@garzik.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-08-10 at 15:53 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:20:22AM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:17:22PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > >>> Register ext4 filesystem as ext3dev filesystem in kernel. > >> Why confuse users with the name "ext3dev"? If a filesystem lives in > >> fs/blah/, it's registered as "blah" and can be mounted with "-t blah". > >> Just register the filesystem as "ext4" and mark it "EXPERIMENTAL" in > >> Kconfig. > > > > We had this discussion on LKML. There were those who were concerned > > that it would not be enough just to mark it be EXPERIMENTAL. > > I _want_ to agree with Erik, but I must agree: CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is > pretty worthless in practice :( It's not maintained rigorously, and > distros _always_ enable it, because otherwise they would often omit key > drivers that people actively use. > > So, while my own personal preference would be to follow Erik's > suggestion... thinking realistically, an fstype change from "ext3dev" > to "ext4" is a far more obvious-to-users method of creating a > devel/production line of demarcation. IF it's decided to register the file system as ext3dev (Would ext4dev make more sense?), I would prefer the config options and code continues to simply use ext4. -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642