linux-ext4 - Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Drop ext2/ext3 codebase? When?

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Message-ID: <4D4B258F.6020708@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:00:47 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
CC:	Michael Rubin <mrubin@...gle.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	lsf-pc@...ts.linuxfoundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Drop ext2/ext3 codebase? When?

On 2/3/11 3:57 PM, Amir Goldstein wrote:

> Can you give a rough estimate of how those commits diverge between
> bugfixes, kernel API changes, code cleanups?

Um, maybe by the time LSF rolls around ;) It'd take a while to sift
though.
 
> Next3 has been following ext3 since 2.6.31 and I remember changes of
> the 2 latter,
> but not many major bugfixes.
> 
> I hardly think we can get away with throwing out ext3 code base, but
> maybe it can go
> into bugfixes-only mode? that is unless Jan likes to apply cleanups ;-)

In theory that's what it's been for a couple years already :)

-Eric

> Amir.
> 
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