Re: Btrfs for mainline

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On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 16:01 +0100, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 09:35:53AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 09:32 +0100, Gabor MICSKO wrote:
> > > Hi Chris,
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Does this means that disk format finalised or at least backward
> > > compatible?
> > > 
> > 
> > We're making every effort to avoid new disk format changes now (that are
> > not backward compatible).  Only a critical bug would result in a disk
> > format change now.
> 
> 
>   Is this means that new format is ready for RAID5-like disk layout?
> 

That will be done through forward compat bits.  So you won't be able to
use today's code to mount a RAID5 FS, but the raid5 fs will understand
today's FS.

-chris




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