Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Aug 2006 01:58:57 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Forking ext4 filesystem and JBD2 |
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Mingming Cao wrote: > This series of patch forkes a new filesystem, ext4, from the current > ext3 filesystem, as the code base to work on, for the big features such > as extents and larger fs(48 bit blk number) support, per our discussion > on lkml a few weeks ago. [...] > Any comments? Could we add ext4/jbd2 to mm tree for a wider testing?
ext4 developers should create a git tree with the consensus-accepted patches.
That way Linus can pull as soon as the merge window opens, Andrew is guaranteed to have the latest in his -mm tree, and users and other kernel hackers can easily follow the development without having to gather scattered patches from lkml.
Jeff
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