Re: 55/61: gnu: linux-libre: Enable built-in ext4 support.

[Mark H Weaver]

Hi Mathieu,

Mathieu Othacehe <address@hidden> writes:

>> I'd prefer to go in the other direction, by changing ext4 to be modular
>> in _all_ configs.  Would that work for you?
>
> Yes, the only thing that matters to me is that there's consistency
> between all platforms. "ext4" is the default fs on vm produced by
> "qemu-img" in (gnu system vm) and is supposed to be built-in as there
> are no "modprobe ext4".
>
> So if we decide to switch to another fs, or keep "ext4" but as a module
> for all architectures, it's fine, as long as its consistent.

Great, thanks.

> For now it would be easier to take this patch and we can later on build
> it as a module eveywhere and add it to file-system-type-modules in (gnu
> system linux-initrd).

Okay, sounds good.  Thanks for working on it.

     Best,
      Mark