Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please

Timothy Miller
2004-06-25T17:41:53Z

Sean Neakums wrote:
> I seem to remember somebody, I think maybe Andrew Morton, suggesting
> that a no-journal mode be added to ext3 so that ext2 could be removed.
> I can't find the message in question right now, though.

As an option, that might be nice, but if everyone were to start using
ext3 even for their non-journalled file systems, the ext2 code would be
subject to code rot.