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. I guess neither of these is really worth inhibiting progress. Just thoughts. Same arguments applied when ata took over handling all ide. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org