From: "Darrick J. Wong" Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 14:49:24 -0700 Message-ID: <20150903214924.GB10391@birch.djwong.org> References: <20150831061920.GA2751@quack.suse.cz> <20150902165201.GW12432@techsingularity.net> <20150902184522.GA10390@birch.djwong.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , Mel Gorman , Jan Kara , LKML , "linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org" , linux-fsdevel To: Albino B Neto Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 08:28:38AM -0300, Albino B Neto wrote: > 2015-09-02 20:47 GMT-03:00 Linus Torvalds : > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Darrick J. Wong > > wrote: > >> Yes, that would be a bug. > > > > So the thing I'm happy to see is that the ext4 developers seem to > > unanimously agree that maintaining ext3 compatibility is part of their > > job, and nobody seems to be arguing for keeping ext3 around. As long > > as any possible regressions from ext3 removal have a clear "yup, it's > > on us" from the ext4 people, I don't mind removing it. I was > > expecting ext4 people to not be thrilled about supporting possible > > legacy cases. > > Good. > > The future of ext4 ? Are you (developers) write other file system ? Well I was working on a new one called EXT3000 with all new servos, but then I had to reuse the start and stop controls for something else and now the whole thing is SOL. I guess I'll go watch a movie instead. ;) --D > > -- > Albino B Neto > www.bino.us > "Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!" faw > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html