Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 24 May 2001 23:16:58 +0100 (BST)


> IMHO we are not that deep into code freeze anymore. Freevxfs got added
> in linux-2.4.5-pre*, so I think that a patch that adds a useful feature
> like badblock support would be OK.

FreeVxFS changes precisely nothing in the behaviour of any other fs - its like
adding a new driver.

Updating Reiserfs requires a lot more care because it has the potential to
harm existing stable setups

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