linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4

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Message-id: <20081007110752.GV2009@webber.adilger.int>
Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:07:52 -0600
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Rename ext4dev to ext4

On Oct 07, 2008  01:08 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> +	  This is the next generation of the ext3 filesystem.
>  
>  	  Unlike the change from ext2 filesystem to ext3 filesystem,
> +	  the on-disk format of ext4 is not backwardscompatible with

Actually, it is not _forwards_ compatible with ext2/ext3 drivers, but
it is most certainly _backwards_ compatible with older ext3 filesystems.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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