From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Register ext3dev filesystem
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:59:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060810175920.GC19238@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060810092021.GB11361@harddisk-recovery.com>
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.
- Ted
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-10 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 1:17 [PATCH 2/5] Register ext3dev filesystem Mingming Cao
2006-08-10 9:20 ` [Ext2-devel] " Erik Mouw
2006-08-10 17:33 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-08-10 17:59 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2006-08-10 19:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 20:08 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-08-10 20:22 ` John Stoffel
2006-08-10 20:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 21:05 ` Mingming Cao
2006-08-10 20:23 ` Erik Mouw
2006-08-10 20:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-15 15:25 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-20 10:14 ` Sander
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