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

[Coly Li]

Sunil Mushran Wrote:
> 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.
> 
Yes, that's what I suggest. IMHO, if we announce the info now, 2 years later this option can be
smoothly removed from SLE12.

But this is only my humble opinion. Need more comments ;-)

Thanks.
-- 
Coly Li
SuSE Labs