From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:47:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87iqtwyq55.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <200808200245.AA00210@capsicum.lab.ntt.co.jp> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Ryusuke Konishi Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:49030 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752095AbYHTJrX (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:47:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200808200245.AA00210@capsicum.lab.ntt.co.jp> (Ryusuke Konishi's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:05 +0900") Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ryusuke Konishi writes: > It has many TODO items: How stable is the on-disk format? 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) -Andi