From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: [PATCH, E2FSPROGS] blkid: Automatically chose between ext4 and ext4dev as appropriate Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 16:50:37 -0600 Message-ID: <47ACDCBD.8040009@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: "Theodore Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:49709 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752892AbYBHWu7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:50:59 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I plan to release this in an upcoming 1.40.6 release, along with code > that allows "tune2fs -E test_fs" to work on ext4 filesystems. The idea > is that if I can get this into community distro's, it will make it > easier for them to experiment with ext4/ext4dev, with the appropriate > forward compatibility when sometime (hopefully 2.6.26 or 2.6.27?) we > rename ext4dev to ext4. > > Any comments before I push this change out to the maint branch? Seems logically correct to me... although it also seems like this has gotten fairly complex by now, what with blkid rummaging around in modules.dep, /proc files, etc... -Eric