On Thu 03-02-11 11:32:01, Michael Rubin wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:08 AM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If we can have a real plan for moving in this direction though, I'd > > support it. I'm just not sure how we get enough real testing under > > our belts to be comfortable with dropping ext[23], especially as > > most distros now default to ext4 anyway. > > Eric what sort of testing are you looking for? I believe Ted wrote a good summary of what combinations of options would need to be tested on a regular basis to get at least some confidence that the switch could work. > I admit I like having ext2 around for comparisons in bug situations. > It really helps to isolate the problem area. How painful is the > upkeep? Well, for me it's a couple of hours per week on average I'd say. Plus there is some work other people do when changing some VFS/MM interfaces influencing all the filesystems. The time I spend is enough to keep ext3 in a good shape I believe but I have a feeling that ext2 is slowly bitrotting. Sometime when I look at ext2 code I see stuff we simply do differently these days and that's just a step away from the code getting broken... It would not be too much work to clean things up and maintain but it's a work with no clear gain (if you do the thankless job of maintaining old code, you should at least have users who appreciate that ;) so naturally no one does it. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
