Imeant this go to opensuse-kernel. I forgot the first time On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote:

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Jan Kara wrote:

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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jan Kara wrote:

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 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 -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR

I think it is a good idea.

It is something easily reverted late in the release cycle, so there is not that much danger from a release cycle perspective.

Conceivably it could eat a filesystem or two, but I have often heard it said that factory can do that, especially very early in the cycle like we are right now.  I would not expect it to eat a filesystem actually. Kernel crash is

On Thu 07-04-11 16:50:16, Greg Freemyer wrote: possible but fs corruption (even more a one which is hard to fix) rather unlikely.

If filesystem corruption is unlikely and hard to fix corruption is rather unlikely, then I would take the advice of the EXT3 driver maintainer.   (ie. Jan himself). So my vote is to let Jan make the decisions on this. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org