From: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Remove any occurrence of ext4dev and test_fs Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:41:50 -0500 Message-ID: <54175D1E.9090107@redhat.com> References: <1392821835-12059-1-git-send-email-lczerner@redhat.com> <5304E243.6050700@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tytso@mit.edu To: Lukas Czerner , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53256 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755373AbaIOVly (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:41:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5304E243.6050700@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2/19/14 10:56 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 2/19/14, 8:57 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote: >> ext4dev is no longer supported by kernel so we really need to get rid of >> it entirely from e2fsprogs. >> >> This patch removes any occurrence of ext4dev and test_fs flag from the >> e2fsprogs tools with one exception. Out of paranoia we can still leave >> the possibility to remove test_fs flag (EXT2_FLAGS_TEST_FILESYS) from >> the file system using e2fsck by specifying clear_test_fs_flag option in >> the e2fsck.config file. > > Yes, I think this makes good sense. While one could argue that > test_fs may be used for some other purpose in the future, we have > added a lot of fairly experimental code without making use of it, > so I'd argue that it has no practical use going forward. > > Acked-by: Eric Sandeen Ted, any thoughts on this? -Eric