On Thu, Dec 02, 2010 at 11:25:01PM -0500, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Josef, > > > 1) Scrap the 256 inode number thing. Instead we'll just put a > > flag in the inode to say "Hey, I'm a subvolume" and then we can > > do all of the appropriate magic that way. This unfortunately > > will be an incompatible format change, but the sooner we get this > > adressed the easier it will be in the long run. Obviously when I > > say format change I mean via the incompat bits we have, so old > > fs's won't be broken and such. > > Sorry if I've missed this elsewhere in the thread -- will we still > have an efficient operation for enumerating subvolumes and snapshots, > and how will that work? We're going to want tools like plymouth and > grub to be able to list all snapshots without running a large scan. > Yeah the idea is we want to fix the problems with the design without breaking anything that currently works. So all the changes I want to make are going to be invisible for the user. Thanks, Josef -- 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
