Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1

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On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:24:02 +0530
Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:29:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:39:33 -0700
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Could we please have a few nice words about ext4 for the record?  Like,
> > > what its features are, how one creates an instance, where to get the
> > > correct userspace tools from, stability level, any known shortcomings,
> > > issues, etc?
> > 
> > So I guess I get to write this.
> 
> Hopefully not :) 
> We should be able to put something together for a start. Where should this
> reside ? Under Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt ?

That sounds appropriate.  And in the patch changelog.

> However, since this is still very clearly a "development" branch at the moment,
> with lots of ongoing work both on the kernel and even more so on the
> tools side, how much detail are you looking for ?

We should make it as easy as possible for our testers to get up and running
and using all available features.  They're skilled, so a simple user guide
which tells them what the features are and how to access them should
suffice, thanks.

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