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Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:02:52 +0100
From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.20-jam0
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On 2002.11.30 Sean Neakums wrote:
>commence  J.A. Magallon quotation:
>
>> Thanks, I will add it...
>> BTW, who puts names to options ? Wouldn't be more intuitive to add options
>> like 'ialloc_std' or 'ialloc_orlov' ? Too late to change this ?
>
>There isn't exactly a whole lot of contention in the mount-options
>namespace.  And neither orlov not ialloc_orlov is in any way
>"intuitive".  However, orlov is more guessable, to my mind, than
>ialloc_orlov.
>

Well, what I think is more understandable when you see a /etc/fstab
would be something like 'inode_allocator=std' or 'inode_allocator=orlov' or
'inode_allocator=xxxxx' if something new appears.

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