Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please

John Richard Moser
2004-06-25T23:48:22Z

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Andrew Morton wrote:
| Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> wrote:
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|>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.
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| I think it could be done, mainly as a kernel-space-saving exercise. But
| the two filesystems are quite different nowadays.
|
| ext2 uses per-inode pagecache for directories, ext3 uses blockdev
| pagecache. The truncate algorithms are significantly different. Other
stuff.
|

So why isn't it feasible to keep truncate algorithms and pagecache code
separated while collapsing the rest? Same logic as i said in another reply:

if (journaled)
~ extfs_journaled_truncate();
else
~ extfs_nonjournaled_truncate();

| Much pain, little gain.

I understand this; but all work done is volunteer, so it'll only get
done if someone wants to do it :)
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