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    SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
    On Jun 09, 2006  19:09 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
    > Andreas Dilger wrote:
    > >Maybe we should start by deleting ext2 because it is old and obsolete?
    > >The reality is that we will never merge the forks back once they are made.
    >
    > We _already have_ a relevant example: ext2 -> ext3.
    >
    > A useful fork is in the tree, and you're working on it.

    OK, you're right. We'll continue working on the fork (namely ext3) and
    when people who care consider those features stable enough they can port
    them to ext2. :-)

    Like another person pointed out - there are bugs that are fixed in ext3
    that aren't in fixed ext2, and vice versa. Even though the ext2 code
    is basically dead, new bugs are still found in it.

    Cheers, Andreas
    --
    Andreas Dilger
    Principal Software Engineer
    Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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