Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver

[peebee]

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Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver
By Michael Larabel. 26 March 2024.
While Linux 6.9 brings many great changes and new features / hardware support, on the deprecation side it's deprecating the classic EXT2 file-system driver........

Read all about at, https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Deprecates-EXT2

[Jasper]

Many years ago, I always choose to use EXT2 simply because there were drivers for Windows that could read/access/write these partitions.

[dimkr]

This doesn't mean that ext2 is deprecated or unsupported, if your kernel is built with CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT2=y (and it should be), the driver for ext4 is also used for ext2. What's deprecated is the old driver for ext2.