linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"

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Message-ID: <20091119193222.GD2099@thunk.org>
Date:	Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:32:22 -0500
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 04:47:09PM -0600, 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 ext4.
> 
> Also show this status in /proc/mounts
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>

Queued, thanks.

I made a minor change to Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt to make
"norecovery" be the first option, since we seem to be treating it as
the canonical option name in ext4_show_options().

				- Ted
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