From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1 Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:14:34 -0700 Message-ID: <20061010011434.e8e2f76b.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1160072610.8508.12.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> <20061005173933.f54555fb.akpm@osdl.org> <20061009232927.77b667c2.akpm@osdl.org> <20061010075402.GA23992@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dave Kleikamp , ext4 development Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:11502 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965095AbWJJIUL (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:20:11 -0400 To: suparna@in.ibm.com In-Reply-To: <20061010075402.GA23992@in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:24:02 +0530 Suparna Bhattacharya wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:29:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 17:39:33 -0700 > > Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > Could we please have a few nice words about ext4 for the record? Like, > > > what its features are, how one creates an instance, where to get the > > > correct userspace tools from, stability level, any known shortcomings, > > > issues, etc? > > > > So I guess I get to write this. > > Hopefully not :) > We should be able to put something together for a start. Where should this > reside ? Under Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt ? That sounds appropriate. And in the patch changelog. > However, since this is still very clearly a "development" branch at the moment, > with lots of ongoing work both on the kernel and even more so on the > tools side, how much detail are you looking for ? We should make it as easy as possible for our testers to get up and running and using all available features. They're skilled, so a simple user guide which tells them what the features are and how to access them should suffice, thanks.