Re: [REVIEW] Don't make lazy counters default for mkfs

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 17:19 -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:

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I thought about that; xfs *could* stick someting in /proc/fs/xfs

with

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supported features or somesuch.

But, the kernel you mkfs under isn't necessarily the one you're

going to

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need to fall back to tomorrow, though...

  

True but at least it could make a bit of a intelligent decision.
and maybe a warning for a while about potentially incompatible flags. 

Might also be a good idea to require -f to force a mkfs of a filesystem
which the kernel doesn't support.

Would be good to get blocksize > pagesize into this scheme too btw, and
unfortunately that one isn't a superblock flag) - so this scheme might
need to go beyond those flags, if anyone decides to implement it.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan