From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965193AbYEBVkX (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 17:40:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932789AbYEBVkK (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 17:40:10 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:44880 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932092AbYEBVkJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2008 17:40:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 14:39:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= cc: Stephen Rothwell , Andrew Morton , David Woodhouse , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LogFS merge In-Reply-To: <20080502213146.GD24080@logfs.org> Message-ID: References: <20080502133234.GA24080@logfs.org> <20080502202151.GB24080@logfs.org> <20080502213146.GD24080@logfs.org> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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