Re: mode data=journal in ext3. Is it safe to use?

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Thu Jun 17 2004 - 11:56:21 EST


Dave Jones wrote:

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:35:50PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:

> >the reluctance of the developers to adapt to the 4K kernel stacks in
> >2.6.recent,
> >
> do you use them? I don't know real users who do, or else I would be > quicker to care.

The Fedora Core 2 kernel (and what will be RHEL4) is currently
using 4K stacks. This makes up quite a large userbase.


Sigh. I guess we have to support it then.

Chris, are you up to doing it?

> On the one hand, you complain about how we were unstable, and on the > other hand you complain about how we aren't willing to destabilize the > code to add new features to what is no longer the development branch. > Seems pretty inconsistent logically to me.

If you really are reluctant it fix it, there's always the option of
marking CONFIG_REISER4 as dependant on CONFIG_BROKEN if CONFIG_4KSTACKS
is selected.

Dave






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