From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 42/42] ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:09:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F12427.5090801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F122FC.6040107@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> The ext4 filesystem is getting stable enough that it's time to drop
>> the "dev" prefix. Also remove the requirement for the TEST_FILESYS
>> flag.
>>
>
> Shouldn't you still register "ext4dev" as a filesystem type, so that old
> setups won't suddenly break? I just had this happen to me; I had to
> work out why /home didn't mount.
Yep, we've discussed that and I think it'll get added.
It should probably go away at some point, but it'd be good at least for
a transition period.
Jeremy, btw the latest fedora kernels should fix your xattr hang :)
-Eric
>> +obj-$(CONFIG_EXT4_FS) += ext4/ # Before ext2 so root fs can be ext4dev
>>
>
> s/ext4dev/ext4/
>
> J
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-11 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 4:05 [PATCH 0/42] Ext4 patches queued up for the 2.6.28 merge window Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 01/42] percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set() Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 02/42] ext4: Add printk priority levels to clean up checkpatch warnings Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 03/42] ext4: Fix long long " Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 04/42] ext4: Fix whitespace checkpatch warnings/errors Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 05/42] ext4: invalidate pages if delalloc block allocation fails Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 06/42] ext4: Make sure all the block allocation paths reserve blocks Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 07/42] ext4: Retry block reservation Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 08/42] ext4: Add percpu dirty block accounting Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 09/42] ext4: Switch to non delalloc mode when we are low on free blocks count Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 10/42] ext4: Signed arithmetic fix Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 11/42] ext4: Fix ext4 nomballoc allocator for ENOSPC Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 12/42] ext4: Don't add the inode to journal handle until after the block is allocated Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 13/42] ext4: Retry block allocation if we have free blocks left Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 14/42] ext4: truncate block allocated on a failed ext4_write_begin Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 15/42] ext4: Properly update i_disksize Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 16/42] ext4: Avoid printk floods in the face of directory corruption Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 17/42] Update flex_bg free blocks and free inodes counters when resizing Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 18/42] ext4: fix #11321: create /proc/ext4/*/stats more carefully Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 19/42] jbd2: clean up how the journal device name is printed Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 20/42] ext4: add missing unlock in ext4_check_descriptors() on error path Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 21/42] ext4: elevate write count for migrate ioctl Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 22/42] ext4: hook the ext3 migration interface to the EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS ioctl Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 23/42] ext4: Renumber EXT4_IOC_MIGRATE Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 24/42] ext4: use percpu data structures for lg_prealloc_list Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 25/42] ext4/jbd2: Avoid WARN() messages when failing to write to the superblock Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 26/42] ext4: Don't use 'struct dentry' for internal lookups Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 27/42] ext4: move /proc setup and teardown out of mballoc.c Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 28/42] ext4: Combine proc file handling into a single set of functions Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 29/42] ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 30/42] ext4: Remove old legacy block allocator Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 31/42] ext4: fix initialization of UNINIT bitmap blocks Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 32/42] jbd2: abort instead of waiting for nonexistent transaction Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 33/42] ext4: Add debugging markers that can be used by systemtap Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 34/42] jbd2: Fix buffer head leak when writing the commit block Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 35/42] ext4: fix xattr deadlock Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 36/42] vfs: vfs-level fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 37/42] ocfs2: fiemap support Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 38/42] generic block based fiemap implementation Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 39/42] Hook ext4 to the vfs fiemap interface Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 40/42] Update ext4 MAINTAINERS file Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:05 ` [PATCH 41/42] ext4: Avoid double dirtying of super block in ext4_put_super() Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-09 4:06 ` [PATCH 42/42] ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4 Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-11 22:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-11 22:09 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-10-11 22:54 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-11 22:58 ` Theodore Tso
2008-10-11 23:08 ` Grant Coady
2008-10-12 1:06 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-09 8:18 ` [PATCH 29/42] ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode table Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-10-09 8:52 ` [PATCH 01/42] percpu counter: clean up percpu_counter_sum_and_set() Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-09 16:52 ` Theodore Tso
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