On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 05:29:03PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > Part of the problem/frustration as we go around and round fs-devel is > that some people would request new features to support new > filesystems, and other people have been rejecting new features because > it makes the interface more complicated. > > In fact, the previous version of the patch had a flag for compression, > but Cristoph Hellwig objected because he claimed there were no users > for it. Let's make it clear, I've said to not add it unless we have users. And What Anton brought up is exactly the reason for that - to support encrypted extents we actually need more information in the structure. That's why we need to have this broad and sometimes a little slow discussion on fsdevel instead of just rushing in some flag for future use that won't make any sense in the end. (and btw, it's Christoph) -- 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
