From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964799AbWFXMQH (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:16:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964800AbWFXMQH (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:16:07 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:28377 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964799AbWFXMQG (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Jun 2006 08:16:06 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: Change in-kernel afs client filesystem name to 'kafs' From: Arjan van de Ven To: Troy Benjegerdes Cc: David Howells , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060624004154.GL5040@narn.hozed.org> References: <20060624004154.GL5040@narn.hozed.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 14:16:00 +0200 Message-Id: <1151151360.3181.34.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 19:41 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > This patch changes the in-kernel AFS client filesystem name to 'kafs', > as well as allowing the AFS cache manager port to be set as a module > parameter. This is usefull for having a system boot with the root > filesystem on afs with the kernel AFS client, while still having the > option of loading the OpenAFS kernel module for use as a read-write > filesystem later. sounds weird... the filesystem it implements is afs. your change also breaks userspace, since the fs type is a mount option so your change is userspace visible and means people need to fix their scripts... maybe openafs should start using "openafs" as type; they're not in the kernel so they aren't yet bound by the userspace ABI....