I think that this shall take the same long and cautious procedure as new file systems does; new stuff is made available and the binary distros takes like forever to enable them in the default kernel. Like with BTRFS. Phasing out a file system should be similar, let the major distros diable the file system by default and see if there are any troubles with that. ETX3 can possible be enabled by additional kernel-option to emphasize the shift. Just like with systemd where you needed a flag in Arch Linux to enable it at first, then gradually the shit took place.
Can't really see why removing EXT3 form kernel can't be allowed to take some time, or even why it is important. For god sakes, there are tons of file systems with comparable only a few users still in kernel, why touch one of the important EXT systems that we have been relying on like forever.
I myself are using EXT3 and have compiled support for it into kernel. I am using gentoo and configures my own kernel and will most likely try to add EXT3 as an additional kernel module if gentoo maintainers makes it available, or wait a couple of kernels before upgrading as my system runs smooth and fine with 4.0.5 and ZFS is working just perfect.
Can't really see why removing EXT3 form kernel can't be allowed to take some time, or even why it is important. For god sakes, there are tons of file systems with comparable only a few users still in kernel, why touch one of the important EXT systems that we have been relying on like forever.
I myself are using EXT3 and have compiled support for it into kernel. I am using gentoo and configures my own kernel and will most likely try to add EXT3 as an additional kernel module if gentoo maintainers makes it available, or wait a couple of kernels before upgrading as my system runs smooth and fine with 4.0.5 and ZFS is working just perfect.
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