Feature added by: Greg Freemyer (gregfreemyer) Feature #309022, revision 1 Title: Drop ext3 driver and use ext4 kernel and userspace tools only openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Greg Freemyer (gregfreemyer) Description: Per Ted Ts'o (the ext4 maintainer: "Ext4 is format compatible with ext3, and with the proper kernel configuration options, starting with 2.6.33, it's possible to seemlessly allow people who use "mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1 /u1" to have /dev/sda1 mounted using the ext4 file system driver. So we even have a way that we can seemlessly upgrade existing userspace setups to using ext4 without having to make any system configuration changes (except installing a new kernel, of course)." Thus it may make sense to drop the ext3 driver from OS 11.3 I'm not sure how useful it is to do, but ext4 is where the new development is taking place for both the kernel and userspace tools, so it seems it might be useful to switch everyone to ext4 userspace tools. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309022