From: Michael Rubin Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Drop ext2/ext3 codebase? When? Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:32:01 -0800 Message-ID: References: <20110203144011.GA28409@quack.suse.cz> <4D4AC4E2.701@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jan Kara , lsf-pc@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.44.51]:16354 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756554Ab1BCTcZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:32:25 -0500 Received: from kpbe15.cbf.corp.google.com (kpbe15.cbf.corp.google.com [172.25.105.79]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id p13JWN3O010875 for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:32:23 -0800 Received: from yxd30 (yxd30.prod.google.com [10.190.1.222]) by kpbe15.cbf.corp.google.com with ESMTP id p13JVSwH028287 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 3 Feb 2011 11:32:22 -0800 Received: by yxd30 with SMTP id 30so649830yxd.30 for ; Thu, 03 Feb 2011 11:32:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4D4AC4E2.701@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote= : > If we can have a real plan for moving in this direction though, I'd > support it. =A0I'm just not sure how we get enough real testing under > our belts to be comfortable with dropping ext[23], especially as > most distros now default to ext4 anyway. Eric what sort of testing are you looking for? I admit I like having ext2 around for comparisons in bug situations. It really helps to isolate the problem area. How painful is the upkeep? mrubin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html