From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Tso Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] Register ext3dev filesystem Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:59:20 -0400 Message-ID: <20060810175920.GC19238@thunk.org> 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: akpm@osdl.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Mingming Cao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Erik Mouw Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060810092021.GB11361@harddisk-recovery.com> 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, 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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