Re: [REVIEW] Don't make lazy counters default for mkfs

[Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 17:19 -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> 
> > I thought about that; xfs *could* stick someting in /proc/fs/xfs
> with
> > supported features or somesuch.
> >
> > But, the kernel you mkfs under isn't necessarily the one you're
> going to
> > need to fall back to tomorrow, though...
> >
> >   
> True but at least it could make a bit of a intelligent decision.
> and maybe a warning for a while about potentially incompatible flags. 

Might also be a good idea to require -f to force a mkfs of a filesystem
which the kernel doesn't support.

Would be good to get blocksize > pagesize into this scheme too btw, and
unfortunately that one isn't a superblock flag) - so this scheme might
need to go beyond those flags, if anyone decides to implement it.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan