On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 06:27:48PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Yeah, this is a good point... Honestly, I don't quite understand what's > the problem with "minimalist kernel fanatics" going and mounting all the > devices as ext4 (when they decided to compile kernel without ext2/3) - no > need for special kernel option. It will probably need some tweaks in > automounters but still... The number of places in userspace that try to automatically decide whether to mount a particular filesystem as "ext2", "ext3", or "ext4", is somewhat large. It's not just blkid (which is no longer under my control); there are magic programs in various distributions initramfs's, and I don't blame people who don't want to mess with that that; at least for some distributions, it's a fragile PoS that the less you have to mess with, the better. (Since any failures in the initramfs image are effectively impossible to debug.) So if some people want to be able to seemlessly start using ext4 and not have to worry about doing a search through all of userspace and their config files, and we get a bit more testing of ext4 in somewhat "nonstandard" configurations, as far as I'm concerned it's all good. I agree that most distributions are highly unlikely to ever want to turn on this CONFIG option; it's really more for the Linux From Scratch or maybe Gentoo users. - 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
