From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tytso@mit.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Remove any occurrence of ext4dev and test_fs
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 16:41:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54175D1E.9090107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5304E243.6050700@redhat.com>
On 2/19/14 10:56 AM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 2/19/14, 8:57 AM, Lukas Czerner wrote:
>> ext4dev is no longer supported by kernel so we really need to get rid of
>> it entirely from e2fsprogs.
>>
>> This patch removes any occurrence of ext4dev and test_fs flag from the
>> e2fsprogs tools with one exception. Out of paranoia we can still leave
>> the possibility to remove test_fs flag (EXT2_FLAGS_TEST_FILESYS) from
>> the file system using e2fsck by specifying clear_test_fs_flag option in
>> the e2fsck.config file.
>
> Yes, I think this makes good sense. While one could argue that
> test_fs may be used for some other purpose in the future, we have
> added a lot of fairly experimental code without making use of it,
> so I'd argue that it has no practical use going forward.
>
> Acked-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Ted, any thoughts on this?
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-15 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-19 14:57 [PATCH] e2fsprogs: Remove any occurrence of ext4dev and test_fs Lukas Czerner
2014-02-19 16:56 ` Eric Sandeen
2014-03-03 12:55 ` Lukáš Czerner
2014-09-15 21:41 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2015-02-17 22:34 ` Eric Sandeen
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