Re: [PATCH 0/5] Forking ext4 filesystem and JBD2

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>>> We do maintain a quilt(akpm) style patches on http://ext2.sf.net, the 
>>> latest patches are always at 
>>> http://ext2.sourceforge.net/48bitext3/patches/latest/
>>>
>>> We thought about doing git initially, still open for that doing do, if 
>>> it's more preferable by Linus or Andrew. Just thought  it's a lot 
>>> easiler for non git user to pull the patches from a project website.
>>>
>> We should aim to get the big copy-ext3-to-ext4 patch into Linus's tree as
>> early as possible.
>>
>> I'm just not sure when to do that.  Immediately after 2.6.19-rc1 is
>> released would be good because it is when every tree (including -mm) is in
>> its most-synced-up state.
> 
> Or you could simply do it _now_. Its new-driver-like, so freeze should
> not apply :-).

I agree... though that is contingent on having _some_ ext4 patches 
reviewed and applied.

	Jeff