From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:07:52 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081007110752.GV2009@webber.adilger.int> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223356130-22006-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu>
On Oct 07, 2008 01:08 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> + This is the next generation of the ext3 filesystem.
>
> Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
> + the on-disk format of ext4 is not backwardscompatible with
Actually, it is not _forwards_ compatible with ext2/ext3 drivers, but
it is most certainly _backwards_ compatible with older ext3 filesystems.
Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 11:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 5:08 [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4 Theodore Ts'o
2008-10-07 5:16 ` Li Zefan
2008-10-07 11:07 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2008-10-10 18:00 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-10-10 19:46 ` Theodore Tso
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