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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>
Cc: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext2: speed up file creates by optimizing rec_len functions
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:24:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D02C4D8.3040704@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68AB6BC2-4F3F-46E6-AF17-E26FCB03EE9D@dilger.ca>

On 12/10/10 5:40 PM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On 2010-12-10, at 10:55, Ted Ts'o wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:06:25PM -0500, Ric Wheeler wrote:
>>> If we could get rid of ext2 (and eventually ext3), it would actually
>>> help reduce the testing matrix and possibly let us invest even more
>>> in testing ext4.  Having to maintain three very similar code bases
>>> and test them all for correctness and performance is a real pain :)
>>
>> A distribution can do that at any time, just by unconfiguring
>> CONFIG_EXT2 and/or CONFIG_EXT3 and configuring
>> CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23.   :-)
> 
> That doesn't get rid of the maintenance efforts, however.  There are a
> constant stream of "patch for ext[234] needs to be ported to ext[342]".

Agreed....

our 3-way fork is getting cumbersome.
 
> Cheers, Andreas


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-11  0:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-07 17:47 [PATCH 0/2] ext2, ext3: speed up file create workloads Eric Sandeen
2010-12-07 17:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] ext2: speed up file creates by optimizing rec_len functions Eric Sandeen
2010-12-07 21:07   ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-07 21:22     ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-07 21:33       ` Andrew Morton
2010-12-07 21:36         ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-08 19:01         ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-08 21:07           ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-08 21:44             ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-09  1:06               ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-10 17:55                 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-12-10 18:05                   ` Ric Wheeler
2010-12-10 23:40                   ` Andreas Dilger
2010-12-11  0:24                     ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2010-12-09  2:13               ` Eric Sandeen
2010-12-07 17:55 ` [PATCH 2/2] ext3: " Eric Sandeen
2011-01-06 14:47 ` [PATCH 0/2] ext2, ext3: speed up file create workloads Jan Kara

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