Re: [PATCH] Add supported kernel version check to mkfs.btrfs

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On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:50:48 am Oystein Viggen wrote:

> Either way, I guess the RHEL developers could tell people a thing or two
> about the cleverness of assuming a kernel version equals a specific set
> of features and/or bugs.

I'm sure the RHEL developers would be able to change the #define in any tools 
they package to match the kernels they ship.

> WIBNI the btrfs kernel driver could export some kind of "btrfs_version"
> property that btrfs-tools could check instead?

Problem then is that you need to filesystem module inserted before you can 
make the filesystem, and usually that won't happen until you've mounted a 
filesystem of that type. Nice idea though!

> Then again, the need for shenanigans like this should pass quickly as
> the file system matures.

Indeed, but not that's not the case yet and we've had one person report issues 
this week that would have been caught by this. :-)

cheers,
Chris
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