From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Drop ext2/ext3 codebase? When? Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:43:17 -0500 Message-ID: <1296931397.6481.0.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> References: <20110203144011.GA28409@quack.suse.cz> <4D4AC4E2.701@redhat.com> <20110204131739.GC4104@quack.suse.cz> <4D4C3154.3020502@gmail.com> <1296839873.3025.39.camel@mulgrave.site> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: Ric Wheeler , Eric Sandeen , Michael Rubin , Jan Kara , lsf-pc@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org To: James Bottomley Return-path: Received: from mx2.netapp.com ([216.240.18.37]:51331 "EHLO mx2.netapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753268Ab1BESnU convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Feb 2011 13:43:20 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1296839873.3025.39.camel@mulgrave.site> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 11:17 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:03 -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: > > On 02/04/2011 08:17 AM, Jan Kara wrote: > ext2 yes ... I think there's no way we can drop ext3: it's still a > current default filesystem for most distributions. Now, if we discuss > dropping ext2 and working out an end of life plan for ext3 (for the > feature removals schedule) so we don't eventually get into the same > position with it as we are with ext2, then this sounds like a plan. > > > Great topic, might require beer though to be done right :) > > I'm invoking the anti-discrimination statutes here on behalf of those of > us who don't like beer. OK. I'm putting this as filesystems track only proposal, then... -- Trond Myklebust Linux NFS client maintainer NetApp Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com www.netapp.com