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Message-Id: <1231161538.4290.12.camel@think.oraclecorp.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:18:58 -0500
From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To: Chris Samuel <chris@...muel.org>
Cc: linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Btrfs for mainline
On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 21:07 +1100, Chris Samuel wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 8:01:04 am Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > When it's in mainline I suspect people will start using it for that.
>
> Some people don't even wait for that. ;-)
>
> Seriously though, if that is a concern can I suggest taking the btrfsdev route
> and, if you want a real belt and braces approach, perhaps require it to have a
> mandatory mount option specified to successfully mount, maybe "eat_my_data" ?
I think ext4dev made more sense for ext4 because people generally expect
ext* to be stable. Btrfs doesn't quite have the reputation for
stability yet, so I don't feel we need a special -dev name for it.
But, if Andrew/Linus prefer that unstable filesystems are tagged with
-dev, I'm happy to do it.
-chris
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