Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269201AbTGJLIS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:08:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269205AbTGJLIS (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:08:18 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:58036 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269201AbTGJLIO (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2003 07:08:14 -0400 Subject: Re: RFC: what's in a stable series? From: Alan Cox To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Jeff Garzik , LKML , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: <20030710085338.C28672@infradead.org> References: <3F0CBC08.1060201@pobox.com> <20030710085338.C28672@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1057835998.8028.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 10 Jul 2003 12:19:59 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 14 On Iau, 2003-07-10 at 08:53, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Also the quota patches don't change any ABI or API - userland can still > use the old ABI in addition to the new one, 16bit ondisk quotas are > still supported and filesystems couldn't care less which implementation > it plugs into - the API is the same. Because you hacked v1 support out of Jan Kara's stuff the quota bits are pretty useless to most people because they have v1 format files. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/