On 06/06/2011 04:40 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 06:05:24PM +0200, Lukas Czerner wrote:
Well, we can also start ditching some unused features and tunnables, or
make it default and remove it from documentation so people will not use
it and we can get rid of some of the options in the future. For examle
orlov
oldalloc
bsddf
minixdf
I tried deprecated bsddf/minixdf, and got a complaint from a user who
said they were using it. Linus's rule is, "though shalt not break
backwards compatibility", so I have up on it. Realistically, the
difference between these two is so small it's not really a big deal.
Dropping the old allocator is probably a good idea at this point. I
very much doubt anyone is using it.
- Ted
Can we argue that the user base that uses these ancient options can simply
continue to use them in ext3 and use that fig leaf to kill them in ext4 going
forwards?
Ric
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