On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:04:35AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > I just think that ext4.ko running ext3 filesystems needs to be under > explicit control, and not something that happens, occasionally, > accidentally, without the user/administrator requesting it. Least > surprise, and all that... > Well, most of the time that will happen, given that /etc/fstab explicitly states which filesystem to use; and if the user doesn't specify a filesystme type, mount will use blkid/vol_id, and if that says ext3, then ext3 will be used. The only time where it might not happen without an explicit administrator request is on the root filesystem automount.... and if you are using an initrd to mount the filesystem (as all of the enterprise distros now do anyway), that could be easily controlled form userspace as well. - Ted - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
