From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Register ext3dev filesystem Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:33:36 -0700 Message-ID: <20060810103336.ce80c80c.rdunlap@xenotime.net> References: <1155172642.3161.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060810092021.GB11361@harddisk-recovery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mingming Cao , akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:62426 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1422635AbWHJRay (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:30:54 -0400 Received: from midway.site ([71.117.253.75]) by xenotime.net for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:30:50 -0700 To: Erik Mouw In-Reply-To: <20060810092021.GB11361@harddisk-recovery.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:20:22 +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. Yes, please. --- ~Randy