From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LogFS merge
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:39:23 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805021438180.5994@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080502213146.GD24080@logfs.org>
On Fri, 2 May 2008, Jörn Engel wrote:
>
> I have a solution for this, but it would require an incompatible change
> to the format. And right now I have fairly good confidence in the
> format wrt. ensuring correctness. So the plan is to merge logfs as-is
> (modulo bugfixes, review fallout, etc.) and handle the changes for this
> and other performance problems with compat flags. And someday rename
> the whole mess to log2fs and remove some support for old format
> variants.
Quite frankly, if that's the case, I'd *much* rather see that worked on
first, so that there aren't any format changes that are already known to
be pending before it even gets merged.
Would it be at all possible to try to do that, or is it just "too far
out"?
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-02 21:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-02 13:32 Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 14:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-02 15:31 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-02 20:33 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 16:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-02 21:47 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-02 20:21 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 20:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-02 21:31 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 21:39 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-05-02 21:58 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-03 7:03 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-03 9:11 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-03 9:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-03 9:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-03 9:44 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-03 11:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-03 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-03 17:59 ` Offtopic to: " David Collier-Brown
2008-05-02 17:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-02 21:34 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-05 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2008-05-03 9:29 matthieu castet
2008-05-03 12:00 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-04 16:20 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-04 18:04 ` Josh Boyer
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