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From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:57:23 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200808210457.AA00214@capsicum.lab.ntt.co.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqtwyq55.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:47:18 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote:
>> It has many TODO items:
>
>How stable is the on-disk format?

It's almost stable.
Hopefully I don't want to make any major change on the on-disk
format which affects the compatibility.

Some unsupported features like atime, EA, and ACLs should be
carefully confirmed before merging to the mainline though
I believe they don't lead to the major change.

>If the file system makes mainline
>your user base would likely increase significantly. Users then tend
>to have a reasonable exception that they can still mount old file systems
>later on newer kernels (although not necessarily the other way round)

Yes I know.  Thank you for the important advice.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-08-21  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-20  2:45 [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system Ryusuke Konishi
2008-08-20  7:43 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-20  8:22   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-08-20 18:47     ` Ryusuke Konishi
2008-08-20 16:13   ` Ryusuke Konishi
2008-08-20 21:25     ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-20 21:39       ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-20 21:48         ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-21  2:12         ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21  2:46           ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-21  5:15             ` XFS vs Elevators (was Re: [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system) Dave Chinner
2008-08-21  6:00               ` gus3
2008-08-21  6:14                 ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21  7:00                   ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-21  8:53                     ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21  9:33                       ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-21 17:08                         ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-22  2:29                           ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-25  1:59                             ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-25  4:32                               ` Nick Piggin
2008-08-25 12:01                               ` Jamie Lokier
2008-08-26  3:07                                 ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-26  3:50                                   ` david
2008-08-27  1:20                                     ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-27 21:54                                       ` david
2008-08-28  1:08                                         ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21 14:52                       ` Chris Mason
2008-08-21  6:04               ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21  8:07                 ` Aaron Carroll
2008-08-21  8:25                 ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21 11:02                   ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-08-21 15:00                     ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-08-21 17:10                   ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-21 17:33                     ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-22  2:24                       ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-22  6:49                         ` Martin Steigerwald
2008-08-22 12:44                         ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-23 12:52                           ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2008-08-21 11:53                 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-21 15:56                   ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-21 12:51       ` [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system Chris Mason
2008-08-26 10:16     ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-26 16:54       ` Ryusuke Konishi
2008-08-27 18:13         ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-27 18:19         ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-29  6:29           ` Ryusuke Konishi
2008-08-29  8:40             ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-08-29 10:51               ` konishi.ryusuke
2008-08-29 11:04                 ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-29 10:45             ` Jörn Engel
2008-08-29 16:37               ` Ryusuke Konishi
2008-08-29 19:16                 ` Jörn Engel
2008-09-01 12:25                   ` Ryusuke Konishi
2008-08-20  9:47 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-21  4:57   ` Ryusuke Konishi [this message]

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