Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes | From | Austin S Hemmelgarn <> | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 2015 09:33:26 -0400 |
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On 2015-09-02 07:58, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 15:39:45 -0400 > Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 2015-09-01 06:29, Albino B Neto wrote: >>> 2015-08-31 19:31 GMT-03:00 Raymond Jennings <shentino@gmail.com>: >>>> I think also that we should remove the ext2 driver before we remove the ext3 >>>> driver. >>> >>> Yes. It is logical to remove the old ext2 drive, because there are >>> more computers with ext3 that ext2. Ext2 is obsolete by existing >>> technologies. >>> >> NO, it is not logical. A vast majority of Android smartphones in the >> wild use ext2, as do a very significant portion of embedded systems that >> don't have room for the few hundred kilobytes of extra code that the >> ext4 driver has in comparison to ext2. > > Would it be possible to discard the code used for ext4 and ext3 > features at module init time? So you could do something like: > > modprobe ext4 no_ext4 no_ext3 > > and all the space used by those functions would be freed and the > filesystem driver would mark all the ext3/ext4 features as > unsupported. > Personally, I think this is a great idea. It would allow people who need the low memory usage to transition over to the ext4 driver while keeping the memory usage low. In such a case, I would almost suggest making an alias for the ext4 module (extfs maybe?) as modprobe ext4 no_ext4 has the potential to significantly confuse people.
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