Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.20-jam0

J.A. Magallon (jamagallon@able.es)
Sat, 30 Nov 2002 16:02:52 +0100

On 2002.11.30 Sean Neakums wrote:
>commence J.A. Magallon quotation:
>
>> Thanks, I will add it...
>> BTW, who puts names to options ? Wouldn't be more intuitive to add options
>> like 'ialloc_std' or 'ialloc_orlov' ? Too late to change this ?
>
>There isn't exactly a whole lot of contention in the mount-options
>namespace. And neither orlov not ialloc_orlov is in any way
>"intuitive". However, orlov is more guessable, to my mind, than
>ialloc_orlov.
>

Well, what I think is more understandable when you see a /etc/fstab
would be something like 'inode_allocator=std' or 'inode_allocator=orlov' or
'inode_allocator=xxxxx' if something new appears.

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Linux 2.4.20-jam0 (gcc 3.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2-4mdk))
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