linux-ext4 - Re: Next3 on-disk format change request

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Date:	Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:35:29 -0400
From:	tytso@....edu
To:	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
Cc:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@...ger.ca>,
	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Next3 on-disk format change request

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 01:30:54PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> My on-disk format change request is to re-assign a ro_compat feature
> for IS_SNAPSHOT (currently in s_flags).

OK, so in addition to:

#define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_HAS_SNAPSHOT	0x0080

You would also like:

#define EXT4_FEATURE_RO_COMPAT_IS_SNAPSHOT	0x0100

which is a feature flag that the kernel will never support, since this
is a hint that snapshot should only be mounted read-only, correct?

						- Ted
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