From: Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 23:53:05 -0600 Message-ID: <20061006055305.GG22010@schatzie.adilger.int> References: <1160072610.8508.12.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <20061005205526.7fe744f5.akpm@osdl.org> <20061005215442.310b7792.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave Kleikamp , ext4 development Return-path: Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:23209 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932605AbWJFFxH (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Oct 2006 01:53:07 -0400 To: Randy Dunlap Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061005215442.310b7792.rdunlap@xenotime.net> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Oct 05, 2006 21:54 -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 20:55:26 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > If you then mount this filesystem with `-t ext4dev -o extents', it becomes > > incompatible with the ext3 driver. Yes? > > I thought we s/ext4dev/ext4/ ?? No, we want to leave it at ext4dev for a while, to make it very clear that this is still under development. We want to get the existing patches upstream so they don't become completely unwieldy, and earlier testing is also good, but it is not yet feature complete. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.