On Wed 02-09-15 16:47:24, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Darrick J. Wong > <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 05:52:01PM +0100, Mel Gorman wrote: > >> On the flip side, there does not appear to be any good reason for > >> keeping the ext3 driver around because if there ever is a case where an > >> old kernel is required to mount an ext3 filesystem then it appears the > >> ext4 developers would consider it a bug. > > > > Yes, that would be a bug. > > So the thing I'm happy to see is that the ext4 developers seem to > unanimously agree that maintaining ext3 compatibility is part of their > job, and nobody seems to be arguing for keeping ext3 around. As long > as any possible regressions from ext3 removal have a clear "yup, it's > on us" from the ext4 people, I don't mind removing it. I was > expecting ext4 people to not be thrilled about supporting possible > legacy cases. > > As a result, I'm personally convinced. I'll get around to the > filesystem pulls tomorrow unless something unexpected happens, and > expect to pull Jan's ext3-removal tree unless somebody suddenly speaks > up. Thanks for pulling. Next time I will do a better job when writing a changelog for such large change. We were discussing this on and off for last two years with other ext4 developers so when I finally decided the time for removal has come, it felt obvious to me... Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
