From: tytso@mit.edu Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload" Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:33:58 -0500 Message-ID: <20091119193358.GE2099@thunk.org> References: <4B01D749.3030601@redhat.com> <20091119151233.GE24836@duck.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eric Sandeen , ext4 development To: Jan Kara Return-path: Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:37218 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755177AbZKSUc5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:32:57 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091119151233.GE24836@duck.suse.cz> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 04:12:33PM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > On Mon 16-11-09 16:50:49, Eric Sandeen wrote: > > Users on the list recently complained about differences across > > filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay. > > > > In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is > > perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make > > that an alias for ext3. > > > > Also show this status in /proc/mounts > > > > Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen > OK, provided ext4 will have the same change, I'm fine with the patch. > So how is it with ext4? Queued for the next merge window. I did slightly change the documentation in Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt to make "norecovery" be the canonnical option name, since that's what Eric had show up in /proc/mounts. That seems fair, we might as well try to add consistency between different Linux filesystems. - Ted