From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:14:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:13:56 -0400 Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:18193 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:13:46 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.10 + ext3 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:12:01 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation Message-ID: <9ont1h$5fl$1@penguin.transmeta.com> In-Reply-To: <1001280620.3540.33.camel@gromit.house> <9om4ed$1hv$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <20010923193008.A13982@vitelus.com> X-Trace: palladium.transmeta.com 1001355230 24918 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2001 18:13:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@transmeta.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Sep 2001 18:13:50 GMT Cache-Post-Path: palladium.transmeta.com!unknown@penguin.transmeta.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In article <20010923193008.A13982@vitelus.com>, Aaron Lehmann wrote: >On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 02:06:05AM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> We'll merge ext3 soon enough.. As RH seems to start using it more and >> more, there's more reason to merge it into the standard kernel too. >> >> So don't worry. It will happen. > >Kinda OT, but ext3 is often treated more like a new file system than >an extension of ext2. I'm wondering if this is a good thing. On the >machines where I use it I have to compile both ext3 and ext2 (because >it would be foolish to not have ext2 support) into the kernel. Well, for one thing I absolutely refused during ext3 development to have ext3 just be an "extension" to ext2. That _was_ how it was originally thought of, and I very much wanted ext3 to be separate - I strongly felt that it would be stupid to force people who use ext2 for "stable" reasons to have to get the extensions (and I hate #ifdef's). And quite frankly, I don't think we _still_ are at the point where I'd be comfortable saying that we could just merge them, and everybody would use the superset of the code. In five years maybe nobody has any stability worries at all about ext3 code, and we can just drop ext2 and consider it purely a backwards compatibility extension of ext3. Linus