From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 20:45:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 20:45:17 -0500 Received: from vasquez.zip.com.au ([203.12.97.41]:63237 "EHLO vasquez.zip.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 20:45:10 -0500 Message-ID: <3BE34AFA.B74AA7CF@zip.com.au> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:40:10 -0800 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.13-ac5 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "J . A . Magallon" CC: Lista Linux-Kernel Subject: Re: ext3 for pre7 ? In-Reply-To: <20011103013632.A2427@werewolf.able.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "J . A . Magallon" wrote: > > Hi. > > I have tried to adapt the ext3 patch for pre6 to pre7, but many things > in the buffer and cache sections (vmscan.c and so on) have changed... > I also saw in CVS that there have been changes to make it work on pre7. > But I did not guess how to make a patch from CVS. > > Anyone out there has it ? http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/x.patch.gz > BTW: I see there are a bunch of chages in ext3 patch outside its own > fs subtree (try_to_free_pages and so on). Why are not integrated in > mainline ? These changes are needed to support the ordering requirements of ext3, and probably any other fs which performs data journalling. They are not needed by any fs which is currently in the tree.