Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

Andreas Dilger
2006-06-09T23:37:49Z

On Jun 09, 2006 19:09 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.

OK, you're right. We'll continue working on the fork (namely ext3) and
when people who care consider those features stable enough they can port
them to ext2. :-)

Like another person pointed out - there are bugs that are fixed in ext3
that aren't in fixed ext2, and vice versa. Even though the ext2 code
is basically dead, new bugs are still found in it.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.