From: Ric Wheeler Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext2: speed up file creates by optimizing rec_len functions Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:05:14 -0500 Message-ID: <4D026BDA.5070400@redhat.com> References: <4CFE7347.8030807@redhat.com> <4CFE7409.9090609@redhat.com> <20101207130708.71c894e9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <4CFEA5AF.2000702@redhat.com> <20101207133308.eb2144da.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <63DB7A38-7D0F-406E-8ACD-9CE5DB977DD9@dilger.ca> <4CFFF394.1020303@redhat.com> <4D002B91.7020409@redhat.com> <20101210175549.GC3059@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andreas Dilger , Eric Sandeen , Andrew Morton , ext4 development , Jan Kara To: "Ted Ts'o" Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56922 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751617Ab0LJSFZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:05:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20101210175549.GC3059@thunk.org> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/10/2010 12:55 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:06:25PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > >> If we could get rid of ext2 (and eventually ext3), it would actually >> help reduce the testing matrix and possibly let us invest even more >> in testing ext4. Having to maintain three very similar code bases >> and test them all for correctness and performance is a real pain :) >> > A distribution can do that at any time, just by unconfiguring > CONFIG_EXT2 and/or CONFIG_EXT3 and configuring > CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23. :-) > > - Ted Way too easy :) What makes users stop using things is google searches that show up Ted saying "We don't need ext2 any more, just use ext4 with no journal mode" ;) Ric