[Ocfs2-tools-devel] [RFC] [PATCH] ocfs2-tools: mark 'datavolume' in OCFS2 1.4 as obsoleted in documents

[Sunil Mushran]

Coly Li wrote:
> Thanks for the review ;)
> Customer reported a bug (novall bugzilla bnc#450972) because they saw 'datavolume' was supported in
> mount.ocfs2.8 and this option could not be used in real system.
>
> Announcing datavolume option supported in manual (especially in upstream ocfs2-tools, not the
> package in Enterprise Linux) will introduce chance to make end users misunderstand that 'datavolume'
> is still functional (which is not true). That's why I send out this patch.
>
> I agree to keep this option in SLE11, but I do suggest to remove it from SLE12. If we notice end
> users that 'datavolume' option is obsoleted, there might be no more similar bug report in SLE12.
> IMHO, it's hard for me to find a reason to keep the dummy 'datavolume' code in SLE12.
>   

Deprecation implies that it will be removed from the next release.