Hi,

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

The point about backwards compatibility is that things WORK.

There's no point in comparing things to how you _want_ them to work. The
only thing that matters for bckwards compatibility is how they work
_today_.

And your suggestion would break every single installation out there. Not 
"maybe a few".  Every single one.

(yeah, you could find some NFS-only setup that doesn't break. Big deal).

And backwards compatibility is extremely important. 

dep_bool '  New mountalike partitioning code' CONFIG_PARTMOUNTING CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL CONFIG_WHATEVER

Or, since we're talking about the future:

<bool name="PARTMOUNTING">
 <title>
  New mount-alike partitioning code
 </title>
 <dep name="EXPERIMENTAL" sense="include" />
 <dep name="WHATEVER" sense="exclude" />
</bool>

See? New Deal is for the ones that were annoyed by the old one.

			Thunder
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