From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Multiple mount protection Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:56:45 +0200 Message-ID: <20070601105645.GD7217@one.firstfloor.org> References: <1179777153.3910.13.camel@garfield> <20070601091435.GR5181@schatzie.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , Kalpak Shah , linux-ext4 To: Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:53001 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753781AbXFAK4r (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Jun 2007 06:56:47 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070601091435.GR5181@schatzie.adilger.int> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org > It was mentioned before but deserves mentioning again that this will > be an optional feature, mostly for use on SANs, iSCSI, etc where a disk > might be accessed by multiple nodes at the same time. That means there > will not be any impact for desktop users waiting 10s for each of their > filesystems to mount. A safety feature that is optional? Doesn't sound very safe to me. If the safety is needed it should be probably default, otherwise it isn't needed. -Andi