From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:45:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:45:00 -0400 Received: from vitelus.com ([64.81.243.207]:2575 "EHLO vitelus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:44:47 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 21:45:08 -0700 From: Aaron Lehmann To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.10 + ext3 Message-ID: <20010923214507.A15014@vitelus.com> In-Reply-To: <1001280620.3540.33.camel@gromit.house> <9om4ed$1hv$1@penguin.transmeta.com>, <9om4ed$1hv$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010923193008.A13982@vitelus.com> <3BAEAC52.677C064C@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3BAEAC52.677C064C@zip.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 08:45:22PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > So yes, it would be nice if an ext3-only kernel could drive ext2 > filesystems, but not super-important. Cool. > As for the other part of your suggestion: make ext2 "obsolete": > I don't think so. ext3 is wickedly complex, and ext2 is the > reference filesystem for Linux. It could be argued (at length) that > the VFS and block layers were designed for, and are almost part of > ext2. I didn't mean to imply this. I love ext2 and still use it more than probably any other filesystem (judging by numbers of partitions). I simply was hoping for insted of: <*> EXT2 fs <*> EXT3 fs (which is required today for most ext3-using people who want to do ext2 mounts) ... there could be: <*> EXT2 fs <*> EXT3 journalling extensions AFAIK this would eliminate a lot of duplicate kernel code for ext3 users. But anyway, I'm not saying that ext2 should be made obsolete. I only use ext3 on one machine and I would be much more annoyed if I had to enable ext3 on the other machines than live with my current situation of needing both ext2 and ext3 in the kernel on this particular one. I think you understand ;-).