From: Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext2: speed up file creates by optimizing rec_len functions
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:05:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D026BDA.5070400@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101210175549.GC3059@thunk.org>
On 12/10/2010 12:55 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:06:25PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
>
>> If we could get rid of ext2 (and eventually ext3), it would actually
>> help reduce the testing matrix and possibly let us invest even more
>> in testing ext4. Having to maintain three very similar code bases
>> and test them all for correctness and performance is a real pain :)
>>
> A distribution can do that at any time, just by unconfiguring
> CONFIG_EXT2 and/or CONFIG_EXT3 and configuring
> CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23. :-)
>
> - Ted
Way too easy :)
What makes users stop using things is google searches that show up Ted saying
"We don't need ext2 any more, just use ext4 with no journal mode" ;)
Ric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-10 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-07 17:47 [PATCH 0/2] ext2, ext3: speed up file create workloads Eric Sandeen
2010-12-07 17:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] ext2: speed up file creates by optimizing rec_len functions Eric Sandeen
2010-12-07 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-07 21:22 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-07 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-07 21:36 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-08 19:01 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-08 21:07 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-08 21:44 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-09 1:06 ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-10 17:55 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-10 18:05 ` Ric Wheeler [this message]
2010-12-10 23:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-11 0:24 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-09 2:13 ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-07 17:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] ext3: " Eric Sandeen
2011-01-06 14:47 ` [PATCH 0/2] ext2, ext3: speed up file create workloads Jan Kara
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