From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:37:38 -0700
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>
> The biggest change in the pull is the removal of ext3 filesystem driver
> (~28k lines removed).

I really am not ready to just remove ext3 without a lot of good
arguments. There might well be people who this use ext3 as ext3, and
don't want to update. I want more a rationale for removal than "ext4
can read old ext3 filesystems".

                  Linus