Marc Aurele La France
Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:13:06 -0800
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Derrick Brashear wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marc Aurele La France <t...@ualberta.ca> wrote:On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Simon Wilkinson wrote:On 17 Jan 2010, at 13:48, Marc Aurele La France wrote:Any chance of incorporating these into stable?
When we last discussed pullups for 1.4.12, we decided that these were too high risk for that release (the changes appeared very late in the release cycle). MS_NOATIME is sufficiently large that it doesn't appear to conflict with any inode flags, up to and including Linus's current kernel, so there doesn't appear to be a risk associated with not taking them this time round.
Only one more inode flag is needed to create a conflict. Whether or not this occurs before 1.4.13 is released is a risk I gather you are willing to take. I think it's better to be pro-active.
The question is "will it happen in a kernel 1.4.12 also doesn't support, making the issue somewhat less urgent?".
Humm. That depends on whether or not a inode flag conflict is the only reason it doesn't. Incompatible changes to kernel APIs have died down quite a bit of late.
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