Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 10:41:57 -0700 Andreas Dilger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 02, 2008 03:32 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: It might make sense to offer ext4 in -mm and even in early -rc kernels, but I've already seen people using ext4 simply because a stable kernel offered it - and that's definitely not intended. Anyone who _really_ wants to test ext4 should anyway be able to do the trivial change of removing the depends on BROKEN line. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk [EMAIL PROTECTED] @@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ config EXT3_FS_SECURITY config EXT4DEV_FS tristate Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL) - depends on EXPERIMENTAL + depends on BROKEN select JBD2 select CRC16 help Isn't CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL enough? Of course it is - Adrian is however trying to remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL and reality is getting in his way again - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ext4 in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN
Stable kernels are mainly meant for usage, not for trying stuff. You appear to be reinventing history in your attempt to justify removing CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL. And although I see a point in perhaps shipping some not-yet-perfect device drivers for otherwise unsupported hardware or some not-yet-perfect filesystems required for accessing foreign (non-Linux) filesystems, I don't see any point in offering a WIP Linux-only filesystem in stable kernels. So that people can use it and test it. Most people don't run -mm or GIT. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ext4 in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:14:32 -0800 Jeremy Fitzhardinge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amit K. Arora wrote: + if (inode-i_op inode-i_op-fallocate) + ret = inode-i_op-fallocate(inode, offset, len); + else + ret = -ENOTTY; You can only allocate space on typewriters? ;) A lot of people get confused about -ENOTTY, but it is the return for attempting to use an ioctl on the wrong type of object, so this appears to be quite correct. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-ext4 in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html