linux-kernel - Re: document ext3 requirements

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Date:	Sun, 4 Jan 2009 21:52:36 -0600
From:	Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, tytso@....edu,
	mtk.manpages@...il.com, rdunlap@...otime.net,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements

On Sunday 04 January 2009 22:02:05 david@...g.hm wrote:
> when I asked about the on the md list a couple of years ago, the response
> that I got was that it was a good idea, but there was no way to get the
> information about the low-level topology to the higher levels that would
> need to act on the information.

Mount option or an argument to mkfs that stores it in the superblock both work 
for me.

> now that there is a second case where this
> is needed, any mechanism that gets created should be made so that it's
> useable for both.

The embedded and supercomputing worlds have more in common with each other 
than either does with the desktop...

> David Lang

Rob
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