linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add new "development flag" to the ext4 filesystem

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:26:20 +0100
From:	supersud501 <supersud501@...oo.de>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] Add new "development flag" to the ext4 filesystem

Theodore Tso wrote:
> As discussed on RFC, this flag is simply a generic "this is a
> crash/burn test filesystem" marker.  If it is set, then filesystem
> code which is "in development" will be allowed to mount the
> filesystem.  Filesystem code which is not considered ready for
> prime-time will check for this flag, and if it is not set, it will
> refuse to touch the filesystem.
> 
> As we start rolling ext4 out to distro's like Fedora, et. al, this
> makes it less likely that a user might accidentally start using ext4
> on a production filesystem; a bad thing, since that will essentially
> make it be unfsckable until e2fsprogs catches up.
> 
> 						- Ted
> 
> 

how can i set this "flag" on my filesystem? i've never set any flags 
before so i just removed the code from ext4-module to mount my 
filesystems, but setting the flag once would make it easier i think :)
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