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ext4: Reorder fs/Makefile so that ext2 root fs's are mounted using ext2

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In fs/Makefile, ext3 was placed before ext2 so that a root filesystem
that possessed a journal, it would be mounted as ext3 instead of ext2.
This was necessary because a cleanly unmounted ext3 filesystem was
fully backwards compatible with ext2, and could be mounted by ext2 ---
but it was desirable that it be mounted with ext3 so that the
journaling would be enabled.

The ext4 filesystem supports new incompatible features, so there is no
danger of an ext4 filesystem being mistaken for an ext2 filesystem.
At that point, the relative ordering of ext4 with respect to ext2
didn't matter until ext4 gained the ability to mount filesystems
without a journal starting in 2.6.29-rc1.  Now that this is the case,
given that ext4 is before ext2, it means that root filesystems that
were using the plain-jane ext2 format are getting mounted using the
ext4 filesystem driver, which is a change in behavior which could be
surprising to users.

It's doubtful that there are that many ext2-only root filesystem users
that would also have ext4 compiled into the kernel, but to adhere to
the principle of least surprise, the correct ordering in fs/Makefile
is ext3, followed by ext2, and finally ext4.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Ts'o 2009-02-28 09:50:01 -05:00
parent 8b1a8ff8b3
commit d8ae4601a4
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@ -69,10 +69,12 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_DLM) += dlm/
# Do not add any filesystems before this line
obj-$(CONFIG_REISERFS_FS) += reiserfs/
obj-$(CONFIG_EXT3_FS) += ext3/ # Before ext2 so root fs can be ext3
obj-$(CONFIG_EXT4_FS) += ext4/ # Before ext2 so root fs can be ext4
obj-$(CONFIG_EXT2_FS) += ext2/
# We place ext4 after ext2 so plain ext2 root fs's are mounted using ext2
# unless explicitly requested by rootfstype
obj-$(CONFIG_EXT4_FS) += ext4/
obj-$(CONFIG_JBD) += jbd/
obj-$(CONFIG_JBD2) += jbd2/
obj-$(CONFIG_EXT2_FS) += ext2/
obj-$(CONFIG_CRAMFS) += cramfs/
obj-$(CONFIG_SQUASHFS) += squashfs/
obj-y += ramfs/