On 12/10/10 5:40 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > 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]". Agreed.... our 3-way fork is getting cumbersome. > 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
