On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:22:26 -0400 Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I strongly disagree that ext3 should be subject to a spring cleaning. > Comments, whitespace, very very minor things, sure. Trying to get rid > of brelse() when _many_ other filesystems also use it? ext4 material. We should seek to minimise the difficulty of cross-porting bugfixes and enhancements. Putting cleanups in only ext4 works against that. ext3 will be around for many years yet. We cannot just let it rot due to some false belief that performing routine maintenance against it will for some magical reason cause it to break. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html