On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Derrick Brashear wrote:
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Marc Aurele La France <[email protected]>
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.
Anyway, I'll continue carrying these changes until I no longer need to.
Marc.
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