Re: [RFC] Parallelize IO for e2fsck

2008-01-22 Thread Alan Cox
> I'd tried to advocate SIGDANGER some years ago as well, but none of > the kernel maintainers were interested. It definitely makes sense > to have some sort of mechanism like this. At the time I first brought > it up it was in conjunction with Netscape using too much cache on some > system, but

Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Cox
> 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

Re: [2.6.24 patch] let EXT4DEV_FS depend on BROKEN

2008-01-02 Thread Alan Cox
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 - a