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DateFri, 19 Jan 2007 00:27:17 +0100 (CET)
FromGrzegorz Kulewski <>
SubjectRe: NTFS
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:38:13 +0000 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:35:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>> Cool. That means ->put_inode is gone in -mm. Andrew, what are the
>>>> plans for sending the patches to make the ext2 preallocation work
>>>> like ext3 to Linus?
>>>
>>> Cautious. I'm not sure that we ever want to merge them, really - ext2 is
>>> more a reference filesystem than a real one nowadays, and making it more
>>> complex detracts from that.
>>
>> The again while the old preallocation code might be simpler it's also utterly
>> braindead and we need to make sure no one is going to copy this :)
>
> Good point ;)

Are you refering to that particular implementation in ext2 or to the
whole method od doing it implemented currently in ext2?

When can I read about it (description of the new method/implementation in
ext3 and why is it better) some more?


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

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