On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:55:56 EDT, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Because it's called backwards compat, when it isn't? > Because it is very difficult to find out which set of kernels you are > locked out of? > Because the filesystem upgrade is stealthy, occurring as it does on the > first data write? Actually, the *only* point being contended here is running older kernels on some newer filesystems (created originally with a newer kernel), right? Or do you have examples of where current kernels could not deal with an ext3 feature at some point in time? I would argue that 0.001% of all Linux *users* actually worry about this - most of them are right here on the development mailing list. So, that group is more vocal, for sure. But, if it works for 99.99+% users, aren't we still on the good path, from the point of view of those people who actually *use* Linux the most? 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
