On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 01:42:52PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > So even in case 2, we do try to avoid versioning. More often we add a > new flag, and say "hey, if you want the new behavior, use the new flag > to say so". Not versioning, but explicit "I want the new behavior" There are spare flags available in dm-ioctl - one could indeed turn on the new more-restrictive behaviour. Alasdair