On 2015-09-01 06:29, Albino B Neto wrote:
> 2015-08-31 19:31 GMT-03:00 Raymond Jennings <shentino@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 Ext2 is obsolete by existing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.
> 2015-08-31 19:31 GMT-03:00 Raymond Jennings <shentino@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 Ext2 is obsolete by existing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.