Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Remove any occurrence of ext4dev and test_fs

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On 2/19/14 10:56 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 2/19/14, 8:57 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:
>> ext4dev is no longer supported by kernel so we really need to get rid of
>> it entirely from e2fsprogs.
>>
>> This patch removes any occurrence of ext4dev and test_fs flag from the
>> e2fsprogs tools with one exception. Out of paranoia we can still leave
>> the possibility to remove test_fs flag (EXT2_FLAGS_TEST_FILESYS) from
>> the file system using e2fsck by specifying clear_test_fs_flag option in
>> the e2fsck.config file.
> 
> Yes, I think this makes good sense.  While one could argue that
> test_fs may be used for some other purpose in the future, we have
> added a lot of fairly experimental code without making use of it,
> so I'd argue that it has no practical use going forward.
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ted, any thoughts on this?

-Eric

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