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

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Jun 17 10:08:14 UTC 2004


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.

 > 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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