Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 15:00:21 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please |
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Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> wrote: > > I seem to remember somebody, I think maybe Andrew Morton, suggesting > that a no-journal mode be added to ext3 so that ext2 could be removed. > I can't find the message in question right now, though.
I think it could be done, mainly as a kernel-space-saving exercise. But the two filesystems are quite different nowadays.
ext2 uses per-inode pagecache for directories, ext3 uses blockdev pagecache. The truncate algorithms are significantly different. Other stuff.
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