Re: Btrfs for mainline

Jamie Lokier
2009-01-06T22:09:35Z

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> Old kernel versions may still get booted after brtfs has gotten a
> reputation for stability. E.g. if I move my / to brtfs in 2.6.34, then
> one day need to boot back to 2.6.30 to track down some regression, the
> reminder that I'm moving back to some sort of brtfs dark-ages might be
> welcome.

Require a mount option "allow_unstable_version" until it's stable?
The stable version can ignore the option.

In your example, you wouldn't use the option, and in the btrfs dark
ages it would refuse to mount.

-- Jamie