rfc: drop support for historic fs formats from xfsprogs
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.
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Quoted 10 lines · Christoph Hellwig
While doing a lot of
xfs_repairwork 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
- dirv1none 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.
That seems like a good idea to me - less code to support in future, and I'd say taht code is rarely, if ever, tested to work these days.
Cheers,
Dave.
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