Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Register ext3dev filesystem

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:33:36 -0700

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:20:22 +0200 Erik Mouw wrote:

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:17:22PM -0700, Mingming Cao wrote:

Register ext4 filesystem as ext3dev filesystem in kernel.

Why confuse users with the name "ext3dev"? If a filesystem lives in
fs/blah/, it's registered as "blah" and can be mounted with "-t blah".
Just register the filesystem as "ext4" and mark it "EXPERIMENTAL" in
Kconfig.

Yes, please.

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- Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/5] Register ext3dev filesystem
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