Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:17:51 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: fsync on large files |
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On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > kinds of major fs modifications - call it "ext3" and after a year or so of > > > in-production use we can drop ext2. > > > > And funnily enough the instructions for applying his patch start > > "copy fs/ext2 to fs/ext3 then..." > > Good. Then don't go around calling it ext2 any more. I don't want > to have people even _wondering_ about the stability of the central > Linux filesystem.
That is a good point and I believe Stephen has taken this path from the early start of his patches.
> I would also suggest that Stephen actually drop ext2 altogether. > There's just too much historical stuff in most filesystems - > things like having "." and ".." in directories,
Since ext2 is a multiplatform FS and it performs quite well for most workloads, I think it's a decent basis for advanced FS work.
Besides, there already _is_ a new and advanced filesystem, Reiserfs (which will be incorporating some of Stephen's stuff once reiserfs itself is stable).
> I think that if people are doing a new filesystem, it should be > done like "ext2" was originally done: by designing a new one, > rather than building more scaffolding on top of an old one.
Hmm, do I hear the Linus vs. Tanenbaum: "Linux is obsolete" thread reviving... :)
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