default filesystem

Josh Boyer jwboyer at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 3 00:27:08 UTC 2014


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.

config-generic:# CONFIG_EXT2_FS is not set
config-generic:# CONFIG_EXT3_FS is not set
config-generic:CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
config-generic:CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23=y

josh


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