On Tue, 04 May 2010 00:54:21 +0900, Jiro SEKIBA wrote: > Hi, > > It's been almost a year that nilfs2 has been merged into mainline kernel > since 2.6.30, which is released in Jun 2009. Yet, it still shows warnings > that "The NILFS on-disk format may change at any time". > > It still remains controversial argument, like directory indexing > or atime support, xattr support and so on. However, I'd like to > make the target clear that when the above message can be taken away. > > By fixing disk format, we might go forward to contribute more useful > disk utilities like GNU pared. Some of those user land utilities require > just reading super block (or blocks) to identify what the filesystem is > in the specified partition. Therefore it would be good starting point to > declare superblock format which ensure that upper/lower compatibilities. > > In addition to superblock format, over all disk format must be fixed > somehow everybody thinks "it's ok". Thank you for this proposal. I think the warning should be removed much earlier, but at least, it's preferable that the decision is based on some consensus. Sekiba-san, could you become the facilitator of this discussion? I think we should take a step-by-step approach. I agree freezing superblock format is a good milestone for it. Preferably, it should be included for 2.6.35. With regards, Ryusuke Konishi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
