From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Tomas Subject: Re: Re: Reviewing ext3 improvement patches (delalloc, mballoc, extents) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 01:30:40 +0300 Message-ID: <20050304013040.572fbabe.alex@clusterfs.com> References: <20050303083349.GA4896@in.ibm.com> <20050303094021.GY27352@schnapps.adilger.int> <20050303221010.GB6140@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: suparna@in.ibm.com, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, alex@clusterfs.com To: "Theodore Ts'o" In-Reply-To: <20050303221010.GB6140@thunk.org> Sender: ext2-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: ext2-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 17:10:10 -0500 "Theodore Ts'o" wrote: > > This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, since I am still getting > personal e-mail from people who were using Red Hat 7, and decided to > just "try out" Fedora Core 3, only to find that any filesystems > mounted by FC3 could no longer be mountable on their RH7 or RH8 > systems. That's why I prefer users to have to do something that > obviously acknowledges that they are making a change to their > filesystem's compatibility prospects --- and that's something which is > a lot more obvious with a "tune2fs -O " command, as compared to using > a magic mount option. > makes sense for me. I just like to note that mount option was choosed for the only reason: it's simple to use during debugging. thanks, Alex ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click