Linux Poised To Remove Decade-Old EXOFS File-System

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux Poised To Remove Decade-Old EXOFS File-System

The Linux kernel will likely be doing away with EXOFS, a file-system that had been around since the Linux 2.6.30 days...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Poised-To-Kill-EXOFS

[carewolf]

Good rid-off-nce

[eydee]

I just can't stop wondering for how long vFAT support has been around. It's ridiculous, remove it asap.

[brent]

I just can't stop wondering for how long vFAT support has been around. It's ridiculous, remove it asap.

Come on, if you want to troll, you have to try harder.

[DMJC]

Come on, if you want to troll, you have to try harder.

Now that HFS+ is no longer in use on Mac OSX and it's clear we're never getting journaled read/write support it should be removed from the kernel.

[yoshi314]

2.6.30 is (almost) decade old? i would not have thought, but it seems true.

[rmoog]

Come on, if you want to troll, you have to try harder.

ext2 and ext3 should go.
>4TiB-32TiB volume size limit
>16GiB-2TiB file size limit
>1901-2038 date range
Seriously. I've encountered database dumps that would exhaust this kind of file size limit and backup partitions that would exhaust this volume size limit 4 times. Even with 8KiB block size.

[quikee]

ext2 and ext3 should go.
>4TiB-32TiB volume size limit
>16GiB-2TiB file size limit
>1901-2038 date range
Seriously. I've encountered database dumps that would exhaust this kind of file size limit and backup partitions that would exhaust this volume size limit 4 times. Even with 8KiB block size.

Well, as we are trolling: ext4 should go too... btrfs has everything and more.

[rmoog]

btrfs has everything

Ow the edge. Too soon.

[brent]

ext2 and ext3 should go.
>4TiB-32TiB volume size limit
>16GiB-2TiB file size limit
>1901-2038 date range
Seriously. I've encountered database dumps that would exhaust this kind of file size limit and backup partitions that would exhaust this volume size limit 4 times. Even with 8KiB block size.

ext4 is forward compatible to ext2/ext3. You can mount an ext2/ext3 filesystem with the ext4 driver and it'll just work. The only downside is that you may not be able to mount it as ext2/ext3 again. So this is actually quite reasonable.