Re: [REVIEW] Don't make lazy counters default for mkfs

[Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>]

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Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Russell Cattelan wrote:
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>
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>>> Hmm, that still seems pretty soon to me.  I'd have thought you'd at
>>> least want to wait until most of the distributions (esp. SUSE for you
>>> guys) have released versions that have kernels sufficiently recent
>>> that the default mkfs will work.  Otherwise this will be a recurring
>>> problem.
>>>   
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>> I don't suppose there is an easy way to query xfs and find out if it can 
>> support
>> the lazy SB option?
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>
> I thought about that; xfs *could* stick someting in /proc/fs/xfs with
> supported features or somesuch.
>
> But, the kernel you mkfs under isn't necessarily the one you're going to
> need to fall back to tomorrow, though...
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>   
True but at least it could make a bit of a intelligent decision.
and maybe a warning for a while about potentially incompatible flags.

> -Eric
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>   


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