From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda3.sgi.com [192.48.176.15]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q182fTkY026716 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 20:41:30 -0600 Received: from ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net (ipmail06.adl2.internode.on.net [150.101.137.129]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id j64kBcqLWZZxczBD for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:41:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 13:41:24 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: rfc: drop support for historic fs formats from xfsprogs Message-ID: <20120208024124.GB20305@dastard> References: <20120207182902.GA22486@infradead.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120207182902.GA22486@infradead.org> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs