Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Feb 1998 21:32:01 +0200 (EET) | From | Samuli Kaski <> | Subject | Re: VFS 64-bit clean |
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On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
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> Wouldn't it be better to make an "ext3" file-system that is a 64-bit > version of the ext2 one? That way, everybody is happy and everything > works.
I agree - allthough I am not contributing to kernel development, I want to share my thoughts on the matter:
I wouldn't waste time trying to make amazingly clever ext2fs extensions playing with reserved/unused bits in the structures. My feeling is that the direction should be ext3fs (based on ext2fs)
It would only take someone with the balls to get things going and the already known linux-gurus to give their input so that ext3fs gets designed in a way that allows future enhancements without noticeable performance degradation.
Comments? Flames?
-- Samuli Kaski, samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland.
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