linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2015 23:44:22 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Raymond Jennings <shentino@...il.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org" <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 03:31:58PM -0700, Raymond Jennings wrote:
> I think also that we should remove the ext2 driver before we remove the ext3
> driver.

Very strong disagreement here.  Compare to ext4 and ext3, ext2 is a very
different beast with a different architecture.  It's basically our
template for "simple" file system drivers, and very useful for that
alone, nevermind for all the systems that don't want a complicated
journaling or log based file system for various reasons.
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