From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265444AbUAZO4v (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:56:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264313AbUAZO4v (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:56:51 -0500 Received: from virt-216-40-198-21.ev1servers.net ([216.40.198.21]:24850 "EHLO virt-216-40-198-21.ev1servers.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264930AbUAZO4u (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2004 09:56:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:56:33 -0600 From: Chuck Campbell To: Andrew Morton Cc: campbell@accelinc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.2 kernel and ext3 filesystems Message-ID: <20040126145633.GA26983@helium.inexs.com> Reply-To: campbell@accelinc.com Mail-Followup-To: Chuck Campbell , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20040124033208.GA4830@helium.inexs.com> <20040123215848.28dac746.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040123215848.28dac746.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:58:48PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Chuck Campbell wrote: > > > > Was the ext3 filesystem ever back ported to the 2.2 kernel series? > > It was written for 2.2, and then forward-ported. > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/v2.2/ Interesting. I looked at the system running 2.2, and there are no ext3 options in the running config file. It may have been later than 2.2.22... All of this made me remember that an ext3 filesystem can be mounted as ext2, so I got done what I really needed anyway. thanks for the reply, -chuck --