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

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Russell Cattelan wrote:


>> Hmm, that still seems pretty soon to me.  I'd have thought you'd at
>> least want to wait until most of the distributions (esp. SUSE for you
>> guys) have released versions that have kernels sufficiently recent
>> that the default mkfs will work.  Otherwise this will be a recurring
>> problem.
>>   
> I don't suppose there is an easy way to query xfs and find out if it can 
> support
> the lazy SB option?

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...

-Eric