On Wednesday 02 of December 2015, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> How about just checking running kernel version before enabling this by > >> default? > > > > The btrfs solution? No thanks. > > Another option is to export features the running kernel can handle in > sysfs & mkfs accordingly - but then somebody mkfs's under one kernel, > boots another kernel, and gets different mkfs's, possibly fails to mount, > etc... magically changing defaults is a nightmare. yeah, at some point > you have to realize that you cannot save everyone from themselves. ;) Don't change default. Warn instead about mkfs using feature not supported by current kernel. > >> While this is some implementation effort, it may help to reduce > >> questions on this mailing list. And as you see distro problem or not: > >> People still ask here. :) > > Like Dave said - not very often at all. Had one complain about the problem on pld lists. > -Eric -- Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz, arekm / ( maven.pl | pld-linux.org ) _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
