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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: rfc: drop support for historic fs formats from xfsprogs
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:41:24 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120208024124.GB20305@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120207182902.GA22486@infradead.org>

On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 01:29:02PM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> While doing a lot of xfs_repair work I noticed that there's a lot of
> effort spent on handling historic filesystem features.  The two that
> make my life in repair hard are mostly:
> 
>  - unaligned inodes
>  - dirv1
> 
> none of which every made it to production on Linux.  I'd like to suggest
> to drop support for old filesystem features before a certain cut off
> date after we release the currently pending xfsprogs 3.1.8 release.

That seems like a good idea to me - less code to support in future,
and I'd say taht code is rarely, if ever, tested to work these days.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-07 18:29 rfc: drop support for historic fs formats from xfsprogs Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-08  2:41 ` Dave Chinner [this message]

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