Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2001 14:25:21 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.10 + ext3 |
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On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Well, for one thing I absolutely refused during ext3 development to have > ext3 just be an "extension" to ext2. That _was_ how it was originally > thought of, and I very much wanted ext3 to be separate - I strongly felt > that it would be stupid to force people who use ext2 for "stable" > reasons to have to get the extensions (and I hate #ifdef's). > > And quite frankly, I don't think we _still_ are at the point where I'd > be comfortable saying that we could just merge them, and everybody would > use the superset of the code.
What we can do, though, is to move some of the common code into a library. We are not ready to do that right now, but in 2.5 it might be worth doing. Same goes for minixfs/sysvfs/ufs - quite a few things are shared (which is hardly a surprise - filesystems themselves have a lot in common).
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