linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Remove any occurrence of ext4dev and test

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Message-ID: <54E3C211.1080207@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Feb 2015 16:34:57 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
CC:	tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Remove any occurrence of ext4dev and test_fs

On 9/15/14 4:41 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 2/19/14 10:56 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 2/19/14, 8:57 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:
>>> ext4dev is no longer supported by kernel so we really need to get rid of
>>> it entirely from e2fsprogs.
>>>
>>> This patch removes any occurrence of ext4dev and test_fs flag from the
>>> e2fsprogs tools with one exception. Out of paranoia we can still leave
>>> the possibility to remove test_fs flag (EXT2_FLAGS_TEST_FILESYS) from
>>> the file system using e2fsck by specifying clear_test_fs_flag option in
>>> the e2fsck.config file.
>>
>> Yes, I think this makes good sense.  While one could argue that
>> test_fs may be used for some other purpose in the future, we have
>> added a lot of fairly experimental code without making use of it,
>> so I'd argue that it has no practical use going forward.
>>
>> Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
> 
> Ted, any thoughts on this?

I was going to wait for the 1-year anniversary of patch submission, but
decided to jump the gun by 2 days.  ;)

Ted, do you plan to merge this patch, or should I take it off our radar.

Thanks,
-Eric

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