From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:00:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040625150021.3f50350b.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6uhdsz3jud.fsf@zork.zork.net>
Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> wrote:
>
> I seem to remember somebody, I think maybe Andrew Morton, suggesting
> that a no-journal mode be added to ext3 so that ext2 could be removed.
> I can't find the message in question right now, though.
I think it could be done, mainly as a kernel-space-saving exercise. But
the two filesystems are quite different nowadays.
ext2 uses per-inode pagecache for directories, ext3 uses blockdev
pagecache. The truncate algorithms are significantly different. Other stuff.
Much pain, little gain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-25 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-24 23:14 Collapse ext2 and 3 please John Richard Moser
2004-06-25 9:16 ` Helge Hafting
2004-06-25 11:30 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 11:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 11:50 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 12:01 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <1088165028.16286.59.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-06-25 12:05 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 12:13 ` Matthew Garrett
[not found] ` <1088165426.16286.67.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk>
2004-06-25 12:18 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 13:03 ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-06-25 12:40 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 14:03 ` Rik van Riel
2004-06-25 12:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-25 12:15 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 12:26 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-06-25 12:48 ` Philip R. Auld
2004-06-25 12:53 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 13:39 ` Tigran Aivazian
2004-06-25 18:55 ` David van Hoose
2004-06-25 22:26 ` John Richard Moser
2004-06-25 12:25 ` Sean Neakums
2004-06-25 18:01 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-25 18:04 ` Sean Neakums
2004-06-25 18:41 ` Timothy Miller
2004-06-25 20:52 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-06-25 20:50 ` Sean Neakums
2004-06-25 21:36 ` R. J. Wysocki
2004-06-25 22:00 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-06-25 23:48 ` John Richard Moser
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[not found] ` <2b45V-6tl-39@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-25 22:28 ` Pascal Schmidt
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