Actions on the deprecation of ext2 filesystem

[rizalmart]

ext2 filesystem is now deprecated on future linux releases.

https://bootlin.com/blog/ext2-filesystem-driver-now-marked-as-deprecated/

What will be the options for this?

• Drop ext2 support altogether
• Switch to ext3/ext4 filesystem only for creating new puppy savefile but allow to load ext2 formatted savefile for compatibility using ext4 driver

[dimkr]

The ext2 file system is not deprecated, only the legacy driver for ext2. AFAIK pretty much all distros use kernels built with CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2=y and use the ext4 driver (which is not deprecated) for ext3 and ext2.

[rizalmart]

The ext2 file system is not deprecated, only the legacy driver for ext2. AFAIK pretty much all distros use kernels built with CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2=y and use the ext4 driver (which is not deprecated) for ext3 and ext2.

however the puppy init and shutdown scripts still use ext2 driver. I guess it needs redirection to ext4 driver instead of ext2 driver

[dimkr]

however the puppy init and shutdown scripts still use ext2 driver.

I don't see any instances of -t ext2 in the entire git repo.

If they use the ext2 driver instead of the ext4, it's probably because the kernel is built with CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2=n and CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y/m.