Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:27:17 +0100 (CET) | | From | Grzegorz Kulewski <> | | Subject | Re: 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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