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

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Message-ID: <1296931397.6481.0.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org>
Date:	Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:43:17 -0500
From:	Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc:	Ric Wheeler <ricwheeler@...il.com>,
	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>,
	Michael Rubin <mrubin@...gle.com>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	lsf-pc@...ts.linuxfoundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] Drop ext2/ext3 codebase? When?

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 11:17 -0600, James Bottomley wrote: 
> On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:03 -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
> > On 02/04/2011 08:17 AM, Jan Kara wrote:
> ext2 yes ... I think there's no way we can drop ext3: it's still a
> current default filesystem for most distributions.  Now, if we discuss
> dropping ext2 and working out an end of life plan for ext3 (for the
> feature removals schedule) so we don't eventually get into the same
> position with it as we are with ext2, then this sounds like a plan.
> 
> > Great topic, might require beer though to be done right :)
> 
> I'm invoking the anti-discrimination statutes here on behalf of those of
> us who don't like beer.

OK. I'm putting this as filesystems track only proposal, then...

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust@...app.com
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