Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:57:55 +0100 (CET) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: fsync on large files |
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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..."
... then it continues with touching 90% of the ext2fs code. Linus might not have seen the code but the point is i think obvious: we do _not_ want to touch production-level filesystem code. Not, never, ever. Even if this causes source code bloat for a transition period, but this is how we can handle these two conflicting constraints: stability and advance. If ext3fs enters production stage and we have solved the last migration headaches can we integrate them again. Or just delete the ext2 tree.
-- mingo
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