X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0-r929098 (2010-03-30) on oss.sgi.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.4.0-r929098 Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id q17IT4NO251639 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 2012 12:29:04 -0600 X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1328639342-04bdf07516797d80001-NocioJ Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.166.109.252]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id ObeXz7E6IC2FSU4Z (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:29:03 -0800 (PST) X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: BATV+d7bd28d38f4b2bf4a630+3089+infradead.org+hch@bombadil.srs.infradead.org X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 173.166.109.252 Received: from hch by bombadil.infradead.org with local (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Rupmo-0005se-GD for xfs@oss.sgi.com; Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:29:02 +0000 Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2012 13:29:02 -0500 From: Christoph Hellwig To: xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: rfc: drop support for historic fs formats from xfsprogs Message-ID: <20120207182902.GA22486@infradead.org> X-ASG-Orig-Subj: rfc: drop support for historic fs formats from xfsprogs MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html X-Barracuda-Connect: 173-166-109-252-newengland.hfc.comcastbusiness.net[173.166.109.252] X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1328639343 X-Barracuda-Encrypted: AES256-SHA X-Barracuda-URL: http://192.48.157.11:80/cgi-mod/mark.cgi X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at sgi.com X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.60 X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.60 using per-user scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=1000.0 KILL_LEVEL=1.3 tests=BSF_SC5_MJ1963, RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.87890 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.10 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS 0.50 BSF_SC5_MJ1963 Custom Rule MJ1963 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.