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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701190022540.17626@alpha.polcom.net> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:27:17 +0100 (CET) From: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@...com.net> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, aia21@....ac.uk, torvalds@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ntfs-dev@...ts.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: NTFS On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:38:13 +0000 Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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