Re: stability matrix

2016-09-19 Thread Chris Mason
On 09/19/2016 04:36 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 16:07 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: That's in the blockdev command (blockdev --setro /dev/xxx). Well, I know that ;-) ... but I bet most end-user don't (just as most end-users assume mount -r is truly ro)... It's a

Re: stability matrix

2016-09-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 16:07 -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > That's in the blockdev command (blockdev --setro /dev/xxx). Well, I know that ;-) ... but I bet most end-user don't (just as most end-users assume mount -r is truly ro)... At least this is nowadays documented at the mount manpage... so in a

Re: stability matrix

2016-09-19 Thread Chris Mason
On 09/19/2016 03:52 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 13:18 -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: - even mounting a fs ro, may cause it to be changed This would go to the UseCases My same argument about the UUID issues applies here, just without the security aspect.

Re: stability matrix

2016-09-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 13:18 -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > > > - even mounting a fs ro, may cause it to be changed > > > > This would go to the UseCases > My same argument about the UUID issues applies here, just without > the  > security aspect. I personally could agree to have that

Re: stability matrix (was: Is stability a joke?)

2016-09-19 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
+1 for all your changes with the following comments in addition... On Mon, 2016-09-19 at 17:27 +0200, David Sterba wrote: > That's more like a usecase, thats out of the scope of the tabular > overview. But we have an existing page UseCases that I'd like to > transform to a more structured and

Re: stability matrix

2016-09-19 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2016-09-19 11:27, David Sterba wrote: Hi, On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 04:14:04AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: In general: - I think another column should be added, which tells when and for which kernel version the feature-status of each row was revised/updated the last time and

Re: stability matrix (was: Is stability a joke?)

2016-09-19 Thread David Sterba
Hi, On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 04:14:04AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > In general: > - I think another column should be added, which tells when and for >   which kernel version the feature-status of each row was  >   revised/updated the last time and especially by whom. >   If a core dev

Re: stability matrix

2016-09-19 Thread David Sterba
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 07:54:26AM -0400, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > > I'd like to help creating/maintaining this bug overview. A good start > > would be to just crawl through all stable kernels and some distro > > kernels and see which commits show up in fs/btrfs. > > > As of right now, we

Re: stability matrix

2016-09-15 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Donnerstag, 15. September 2016, 07:54:26 CEST schrieb Austin S. Hemmelgarn: > On 2016-09-15 05:49, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: > > On 09/15/2016 04:14 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: […] > I specifically do not think we should worry about distro kernels though. > If someone is using a

Re: stability matrix

2016-09-15 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 5:54 AM, Austin S. Hemmelgarn wrote: > > > I specifically do not think we should worry about distro kernels though. It will be essentially impossible to keep such a thing up to date. It's difficult in the best case scenario to even track upstream's

Re: stability matrix

2016-09-15 Thread Austin S. Hemmelgarn
On 2016-09-15 05:49, Hans van Kranenburg wrote: On 09/15/2016 04:14 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: Hey. As for the stability matrix... In general: - I think another column should be added, which tells when and for which kernel version the feature-status of each row was

Re: stability matrix

2016-09-15 Thread Hans van Kranenburg
On 09/15/2016 04:14 AM, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Hey. > > As for the stability matrix... > > In general: > - I think another column should be added, which tells when and for > which kernel version the feature-status of each row was > revised/updated the last time and especially by

Re: stability matrix (was: Is stability a joke?)

2016-09-14 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hey. As for the stability matrix... In general: - I think another column should be added, which tells when and for   which kernel version the feature-status of each row was    revised/updated the last time and especially by whom.   If a core dev makes a statement on a particular feature, this