<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Bryan Whitehead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:driver@megahappy.net" target="_blank">driver@megahappy.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">This is clearly something Linus should support (forcing ext4 fix). There is an ethos Linus always champions and that is *never* break userspace. NEVER. Clearly this ext4 change has broken userspace. GlusterFS is not in the kernel at all and this change has broken it.</div>
</blockquote><div id="DWT5674"><br>Apparently one year after the change having made into the kernel you believe this argument is still relevant. I don't, really don't.<br></div></div></blockquote><br>It didn't affect distributions for quite a few months afterwards. Having said that, your point is valid. We should have been more proactive on this front. <br><br>-JM<br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>