Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:30:04 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tmpfs: fix mount mpol nodelist parsing |
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Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> wrote: > > Move the mpol= parsing to shmem_parse_mpol under CONFIG_NUMA, reject > all its options as invalid if not NUMA.
That's a bit irritating, really. It means that userspace needs to be different for NUMA kernels (or more different, which is still bad). Boot into a non-NUMA kernel and whoops, no tmpfs and quite possibly no boot.
But last time I whined about this Albert had a list of fairly reasonable-sounding reasons why filesystems shouldn't silently accept not-understood options.
But in this case, we _do_ understand them. We're just not going to do anything about them.
I just wonder if we're being as friendly as we possibly can be to admins and distro-makers.
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