default filesystem

Chris Murphy lists at colorremedies.com
Mon Mar 3 01:00:15 UTC 2014


On Mar 2, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 2, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
>> Arguably, we ought to be considering dumping ext2 and ext3 as fs options. The ext devs will freely admit that ext2 and ext3 aren't getting backports from the rather active ext4 work that's on-going, with any sort of consistency. So why should we be supporting them?
> 
> Depending on how you look at it, we aren't.  We use the ext4 driver to
> mount ext2/3 filesystems on all recent releases.

Sure. I meant in the installer. There's an ext2 option, yet no QA test case. And while there is a test case for ext3, it seems superfluous.


Chris Murphy



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