On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:28:22 +0400, Alex Tomas wrote: > JG> "ext3" will become more and more meaningless. It could mean _any_ of > JG> several filesystem metadata variants, and the admin will have no clue > JG> which variant they are talking to until they try to mount the blkdev > JG> (and possibly fail the mount). > > debugfs <dev> -R stats | grep features ? Sounds similar to cat /proc/cpuinfo. How *do* we deal with processors which have all these many different features? Probably better than we would if each variant were viewed as a different architecture. Jeff's approach taken to the rediculous would mean that we'd have ext versions 1-40 by now at least. I don't think that helps much, either. I think the ext2/3 team has done a great job of providing compatibility. It isn't perfect compatibility forwards *and* backwards, but moving forwards always seems to be pretty reasonable. gerrit - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
