On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 15:39:45 -0400 Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferro...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-09-01 06:29, Albino B Neto wrote: > > 2015-08-31 19:31 GMT-03:00 Raymond Jennings <shent...@gmail.com>: > >> I think also that we should remove the ext2 driver before we remove the > >> ext3 > >> driver. > > > > Yes. It is logical to remove the old ext2 drive, because there are > > more computers with ext3 that ext2. Ext2 is obsolete by existing > > technologies. > > > 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. Would it be possible to discard the code used for ext4 and ext3 features at module init time? So you could do something like: modprobe ext4 no_ext4 no_ext3 and all the space used by those functions would be freed and the filesystem driver would mark all the ext3/ext4 features as unsupported. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
