From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932578AbWFIXJz (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:09:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932576AbWFIXJz (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:09:55 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:49320 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932300AbWFIXJy (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:09:54 -0400 Message-ID: <4489FFB8.3070203@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 19:09:44 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik , Dave Jones , Theodore Tso , Alex Tomas , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 References: <448992EB.5070405@garzik.org> <4489A7ED.8070007@garzik.org> <20060609195750.GD10524@thunk.org> <20060609203803.GF3574@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20060609205036.GI7420@redhat.com> <4489E8EF.5020508@garzik.org> <20060609225604.GK5964@schatzie.adilger.int> In-Reply-To: <20060609225604.GK5964@schatzie.adilger.int> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.2 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andreas Dilger wrote: > Maybe we should start by deleting ext2 because it is old and obsolete? > The reality is that we will never merge the forks back once they are made. We _already have_ a relevant example: ext2 -> ext3. A useful fork is in the tree, and you're working on it. Jeff