Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754090AbbHaVho (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:37:44 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f173.google.com ([209.85.223.173]:33569 "EHLO mail-io0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753242AbbHaVhk (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Aug 2015 17:37:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150831061920.GA2751@quack.suse.cz> References: <20150831061920.GA2751@quack.suse.cz> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:37:38 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: rd75uUjEEZtq8PVEeEeD0hu-sGs Message-ID: Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes From: Linus Torvalds To: Jan Kara Cc: LKML , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , linux-fsdevel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 16 On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Jan Kara wrote: > > The biggest change in the pull is the removal of ext3 filesystem driver > (~28k lines removed). I really am not ready to just remove ext3 without a lot of good arguments. There might well be people who this use ext3 as ext3, and don't want to update. I want more a rationale for removal than "ext4 can read old ext3 filesystems". Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/