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Message-ID: <55E72AAD.40105@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 2 Sep 2015 12:58:21 -0400
From:	Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@...il.com>
To:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, Albino B Neto <bino@...eup.net>,
	Raymond Jennings <shentino@...il.com>,
	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 2015-09-01 19:58, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:39:45PM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
>> NO, it is not logical.  A vast majority of Android smartphones in the wild
>> use ext2, as do a very significant portion of embedded systems that don't
>> have room for the few hundred kilobytes of extra code that the ext4 driver
>> has in comparison to ext2.
>
> Citation, please?  Android switched to ext4 at the end of 2010.  It's
> been five years, and most people have updated their phones in the last
> 3-5 years.
>
I was unaware that they had switched (I don't keep up on Android 
development), although the other part of my statement still holds.



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