From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Drop ext2/ext3 codebase? When?
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:00:47 -0600
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On 2/3/11 3:57 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote:

> Can you give a rough estimate of how those commits diverge between
> bugfixes, kernel API changes, code cleanups?

Um, maybe by the time LSF rolls around ;) It'd take a while to sift
though.
 
> Next3 has been following ext3 since 2.6.31 and I remember changes of
> the 2 latter,
> but not many major bugfixes.
> 
> I hardly think we can get away with throwing out ext3 code base, but
> maybe it can go
> into bugfixes-only mode? that is unless Jan likes to apply cleanups ;-)

In theory that's what it's been for a couple years already :)

-Eric

> Amir.
>