On 07/15/15 08:11, Eric Sandeen wrote:

On 7/15/15 10:09 AM, Randy Dunlap wrote:

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On 07/15/15 08:05, Randy Dunlap wrote:

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On 07/15/15 07:18, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:26:24PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:

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  so I have created this patch set which removes ext3 driver (and some related support
code) from the kernel. See changelog of patch 2/3 for more details. If noone objects,
I will queue the series in my tree for the next merge window.

Jens, are you OK with me merging patch 3/3 or do you want me to send it to you once
the first two patches get merged?

Ted, this also touches ext4 driver so that it always handles ext3 filesystems so ack
from you would be nice.

Got tired of maintaining ext3, eh?   :-)

As a minor nit, I wonder if it's worth while to put in some hackery in
fs/Kconfig so that if someone only has CONFIG_FS_EXT3 defined, but not
CONFIG_FS_EXT4 defined, that it will automatically enable
CONFIG_FS_EXT4 instead?  Otherwise someone upgrading their kernel
might accidentally end up getting a non-functional kernel.

i.e., something like this? (not tested!)

config FS_EXT3
       def_bool n
       select FS_EXT4

Yes, if someone is going to force us to use ext4, some automation would
be helpful.

Thanks,

Are there any other changes required, e.g., to /etc/fstab ?

btw, this looks like an April 1 joke to me.

no fstab changes required.  The ext4 driver has been able to register
itself as ext[23] for quite some time now, so it's transparent.

Many/most distros have been using the ext4.ko driver for ext3 & ext2 for
years.  You may already be using that on some boxes, and not even know it.
;)

Aha.  Right you are.  Thanks.  :)


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~Randy