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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes
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2015-08-31 23:53 GMT-03:00 Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>:
> Yes, you can go back to ext3-only. In fact, we do *not* automatically
> upgrade the file system to use ext4-specific features.
>
>> So it's not just a "you can use ext4 instead" issue. Can you do that
>> *without* then forcing an upgrade forever on that partition? I'm not
>> sure the ext4 people are really even willing to guarantee that kind of
>> backwards compatibility.
>
> Actually, we do guarantee this. It's considered poor form to
> automatically change the superblock to add new file system features in
> a way that would break the ability for the user to roll back to an
> older kernel. This isn't just for ext3->ext4, but for new ext4
> features such as metadata checksumming. The user has to explicitly
> enable the feature using "tune2fs -O new_feature /dev/sdXX".

Yeah!

2015-09-01 16:39 GMT-03:00 Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>:
> 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.

Ext2 portion embedded and Ext3 many machines.

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Albino B Neto
www.bino.us
"Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!" faw


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