Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please

Sean Neakums
2004-06-25T18:06:21Z

Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> writes:

> 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.

My paraphrase is at fault here. In the above, "removed" == "removed
from the kernel tree".