From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] Stable patches for ext4 Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:03:05 -0700 Message-ID: <20081018170305.GB20305@kroah.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:59333 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751552AbYJRRG3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:06:29 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:18:35AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > I'm a bit concerned about asking Greg or Chris to take the delayed > allocation ENOSPC patches, although they really are critical for someone > considering using ext4 in production (and granted, they would probably > be better waiting until 2.6.28). Heh, you do realize that hundreds of thousands of users are going to be using 2.6.27.x "for production" as at least 3 distros are being based off of it? So, either you send these patches to us if you want to have a sane idea of what the distros are using, or you rely on the distros themselves to get it right in cherry-picking from upstream here. I know one distro already has done this, and I'm sure others have as well. It comes down to who you trust, a random distro engineer, or you and your group of engineers :) If you feel the second tree is something that you can support, and you feel is necessary for users if they want to use ext4 on this kernel release, I'd be glad to review them for inclusion. thanks, greg k-h