* rfc: drop support for historic fs formats from xfsprogs
@ 2012-02-07 18:29 Christoph Hellwig
2012-02-08 2:41 ` Dave Chinner
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2012-02-07 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: xfs
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.
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* Re: rfc: drop support for historic fs formats from xfsprogs
2012-02-07 18:29 rfc: drop support for historic fs formats from xfsprogs Christoph Hellwig
@ 2012-02-08 2:41 ` Dave Chinner
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From: Dave Chinner @ 2012-02-08 2:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Hellwig; +Cc: xfs
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.
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