On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Austin S Hemmelgarn
<ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not a bad idea, except that it changes established usage, and there are
> probably some people out there who depend on the current behavior. If we do
> go that way, mount needs to spit out a big obnoxious warning (as in, not
> through dmesg or mount options, but directly on stderr) if the filesystem
> gets mounted degraded automatically.

Definitely there needs to be a user space message. Even now when
trying to mount a volume with a missing device without -o degraded the
generic fs type unrecognized message is misleading.

>  A better option might be to add a
> compat feature bit, and if that bit is set, then use the above logic,
> otherwise use the current logic.

Yeah opt-in rather than opt-out.

-- 
Chris Murphy
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