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SubjectRe: fsync on large files

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

> this fact: the patch performs a global s/ext2/ext3/ on the ext2fs
> code. There are very few changes to the code other than that: there
> are calls to associate buffer udpates to existing transactions and
> there is obviously superblock magic in the mount code, but there are
> no wholesale modifications to the filesystem.

sorry, my comment was misleading, my point was not that at this stage
there are 90% differences, but rather this: it's easier to develop an
independent ext3fs.

-- mingo



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