Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:23:01 -0600 |
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On Aug 31, 2015, at 3:37 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 11:19 PM, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote: >> >> The biggest change in the pull is the removal of ext3 filesystem driver >> (~28k lines removed). > > I really am not ready to just remove ext3 without a lot of good > arguments. There might well be people who this use ext3 as ext3, and > don't want to update. I want more a rationale for removal than "ext4 > can read old ext3 filesystems".
The ext4 code can read and write ext3 filesystems without any compatibility issues (i.e. none of the ext4-specific features are enabled automatically) and have been doing so for all RHEL and SLES users for the past several years via the CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23 option (added in commit 24b58424 in 2009). It looks like the same for Ubuntu since early 2014 also.
The ext4-specific features either need to be enabled specifically via tune2fs (if possible) or at mkfs time.
Cheers, Andreas
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