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If API is in flux, how about not exposing it for now?

If API is in flux, how about not exposing it for now?

Posted Jan 7, 2009 20:48 UTC (Wed) by masoncl (subscriber, #47138)
In reply to: If API is in flux, how about not exposing it for now? by proski
Parent article: Btrfs aims for the mainline

Unfortunately, the ioctls are required to use the filesystem. The part that is most in flux is the system used to mount multi-device filesystems.

This is just one ioctl, and keeping it around shouldn't be a problem for compatibility.


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