Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:48:18 -0400 | From | John Richard Moser <> | Subject | Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please |
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Andrew Morton wrote: | Sean Neakums <sneakums@zork.net> wrote: | |>I seem to remember somebody, I think maybe Andrew Morton, suggesting |>that a no-journal mode be added to ext3 so that ext2 could be removed. |>I can't find the message in question right now, though. | | | I think it could be done, mainly as a kernel-space-saving exercise. But | the two filesystems are quite different nowadays. | | ext2 uses per-inode pagecache for directories, ext3 uses blockdev | pagecache. The truncate algorithms are significantly different. Other stuff. |
So why isn't it feasible to keep truncate algorithms and pagecache code separated while collapsing the rest? Same logic as i said in another reply:
if (journaled) ~ extfs_journaled_truncate(); else ~ extfs_nonjournaled_truncate();
| Much pain, little gain.
I understand this; but all work done is volunteer, so it'll only get done if someone wants to do it :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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