Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751597AbYHTJr7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:47:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753183AbYHTJrZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:47:25 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:49030 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752095AbYHTJrX (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:47:23 -0400 To: Ryusuke Konishi Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] nilfs2: continuous snapshotting file system From: Andi Kleen References: <200808200245.AA00210@capsicum.lab.ntt.co.jp> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:47:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200808200245.AA00210@capsicum.lab.ntt.co.jp> (Ryusuke Konishi's message of "Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:45:05 +0900") Message-ID: <87iqtwyq55.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 616 Lines: 15 Ryusuke Konishi writes: > It has many TODO items: How stable is the on-disk format? If the file system makes mainline your user base would likely increase significantly. Users then tend to have a reasonable exception that they can still mount old file systems later on newer kernels (although not necessarily the other way round) -Andi -- 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/