linux-ext4 - Re: status of MMP?

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Message-ID: <87zl0b21ki.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date:	Fri, 07 May 2010 17:06:53 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...obates.de>
To:	Bernd Schubert <bs_lists@...ef.fastmail.fm>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Bernd Schubert <bschubert@....com>
Subject: Re: status of MMP?

Bernd Schubert <bs_lists@...ef.fastmail.fm> writes:

>
> Lustres ldiskfs already has MMP support for several years and I would like to 
> know what is the blocker for ext4? Updating the MMP patches for ext4-git 
> should be fairly simple.

AFAIK simply nobody has done the work and submitted it.

Simply adding it would break LVM snapshots though, so there's a 
compatibility issue.

-Andi
-- 
ak@...ux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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