On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 07:57 -0500, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote:
> No, because we should ease the transition from other filesystems to
> the
> greatest extent reasonably possible. It should be clearly documented
> as
> an alias for compatibility with ext{3,4}, and that it might go away
> in
> the future.Where's the need for an easy migration path? Such option wouldn't be used by default and even if, people would need to change their fstab/etc. anyway (ext->btrfs). The note that things go away never really work out that easy... people start to use it, rely on it... and sooner or later you have a situation as with atime, that you basically never can get rid of it. IMHO an alias here would be just ambiguous. Cheers, Chris.
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