Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752601AbYAIIVV (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:21:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751026AbYAIIVM (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:21:12 -0500 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:58786 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751024AbYAIIVM (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:21:12 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: BuraphaLinux Server Cc: Kyle Moffett , LKML Kernel Subject: Re: The ext3 way of journalling In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:00:46 +0700." <5d75f4610801090000j20eb7c07m78a07abbffe590ba@mail.gmail.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20080108181525.GL27800@mit.edu> <8DEA7347-120C-4A97-A208-2577ED88F799@mac.com> <5d75f4610801090000j20eb7c07m78a07abbffe590ba@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1199866868_3703P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:21:08 -0500 Message-ID: <23767.1199866868@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1454 Lines: 38 --==_Exmh_1199866868_3703P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 15:00:46 +0700, BuraphaLinux Server said: > The help for CONFIG_DM_SNAPSHOT says it is EXPERIMENTAL (in > 2.6.23.12). So this would mean that there is very high risk of > software failure using snapshots. Would you want to do that for your > fsck? The overall current state of EXPERIMENTAL in the tree is, quite frankly, somewhere between a complete crock and a wheelbarrow full of bovine fertilizer. There's a lot of things labeled EXPERIMENTAL that shouldn't be, and a lot of bleeding edge things that may eat your disks and cause your dog to turn green that aren't labelled EXPERIMENTAL. Having said that, I have *no* idea what state the snapshot code is in, but I have approximately zero confidence that the EXPERIMENTAL tag tells me anything actually useful about the snapshot code. --==_Exmh_1199866868_3703P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFHhIP0cC3lWbTT17ARApC/AKDlP1ovJqASpsFJkbTflFN8eGLrNgCg1Ul6 6qsyttrUFbjoA+cZaZvoMC0= =tCzs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1199866868_3703P-- -- 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/