Re: 2.6.10-rc1-mm5: REISER4_LARGE_KEY is still selectable

From: Vladimir Saveliev
Date: Fri Nov 12 2004 - 11:43:45 EST


Hello

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 16:23, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:07:59AM +0300, Vladimir Saveliev wrote:
>
> > Hello
>
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 19:50, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > REISER4_LARGE_KEY is still selectable in reiser4-include-reiser4.patch
> > > (and we agreed that it shouldn't be).
> >
> > Sorry, concerning this problem - what did we agree about?
>
> depending on the setting of REISER4_LARGE_KEY, there are two binary
> incompatible variants of reiser4 (which can't be both supported by one
> kernel).
>
> Therefore, REISER4_LARGE_KEY shouldn't be asked but always enabled.
>

One may create reiser4 with so called short keys. In current state of
code enabling LARGE_KEY will make impossible to use that filesystem.

So, while reiser4 is not able to distinguish key type on fly we let user
to look for and undefive REISER4_LARGE_KEY macro directly in source
code?

> cu
> Adrian

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/