On 2010-12-10, at 10:55, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:06:25PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote: >> If we could get rid of ext2 (and eventually ext3), it would actually >> help reduce the testing matrix and possibly let us invest even more >> in testing ext4. Having to maintain three very similar code bases >> and test them all for correctness and performance is a real pain :) > > A distribution can do that at any time, just by unconfiguring > CONFIG_EXT2 and/or CONFIG_EXT3 and configuring > CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23. :-) That doesn't get rid of the maintenance efforts, however. There are a constant stream of "patch for ext[234] needs to be ported to ext[342]". Cheers, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
