On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 03:53:34PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Theodore Tso wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:20:22AM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:17:22PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote: > >>> Register ext4 filesystem as ext3dev filesystem in kernel. > >> Why confuse users with the name "ext3dev"? If a filesystem lives in > >> fs/blah/, it's registered as "blah" and can be mounted with "-t blah". > >> Just register the filesystem as "ext4" and mark it "EXPERIMENTAL" in > >> Kconfig. > > > > We had this discussion on LKML. There were those who were concerned > > that it would not be enough just to mark it be EXPERIMENTAL. > > I _want_ to agree with Erik, but I must agree: CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is > pretty worthless in practice :( It's not maintained rigorously, and > distros _always_ enable it, because otherwise they would often omit key > drivers that people actively use. > > So, while my own personal preference would be to follow Erik's > suggestion... thinking realistically, an fstype change from "ext3dev" > to "ext4" is a far more obvious-to-users method of creating a > devel/production line of demarcation. So what about "ext4dev"? That shows that the filesystem is not ext3 and experimental. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - 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
