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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 01:14:34 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> To: suparna@...ibm.com Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...tin.ibm.com>, ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1 On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:24:02 +0530 Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com> 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 <akpm@...l.org> 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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