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 -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC This email may come with a PGP signature as a file. Do not panic. For more info see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPGP -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
