Re: [GIT PULL] Ext3 removal, quota & udf fixes

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Wed Sep 02 2015 - 12:25:21 EST


On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 03:39:45PM -0400, Austin S Hemmelgarn wrote:
> NO, it is not logical. A vast majority of Android smartphones in the wild
> use ext2, as do a very significant portion of embedded systems that don't
> have room for the few hundred kilobytes of extra code that the ext4 driver
> has in comparison to ext2.

Citation, please? Android switched to ext4 at the end of 2010. It's
been five years, and most people have updated their phones in the last
3-5 years.

- Ted
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