-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/07/2011 04:04 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
On 4/7/2011 2:57 PM, Jan Kara wrote:
Hello,
we are figuring out upstream how to eventually get rid of maintaing three code bases of ext2, ext3, and ext4 in parallel. These days ext4 kernel driver is able to handle both ext2 and ext3 filesystems in a backward compatible manner - i.e., you can mount, access, modify the filesystem with ext4 driver and then still be able to use it with the old ext2 driver. So I'd think that we could try changing config of our kernel in Factory so that ext4 driver is used for ext2 filesystem and see whether something breaks or not.
Do people have any opinion on this?
Honza
Is ext4 driver as fast, stable, small/simple for embedded, matured for over 10 years as ext2 driver ? Everything else might be green but that last is hard to address other than by "Feel free to use old kernel and old anything else that doesn't work on that old kernel.".
Also more than one implementation of a core thing is not always bad. It allows a user to discover that a problem seen in one turns out not to exist in the other.
This actually ends up not working out that well. What ends up happening is that bugs are fixed in the version that is most current, now ext4 but this happened with ext3 as well, and perhaps not in older versions. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2eIa4ACgkQLPWxlyuTD7JXfgCfezb6BVgaaCg0aswFY0brqM3L a74AmgNhDCQtjI9gMtJdCRdCEh4AMRNN =6zm1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org