Stephen, Andrew:

Alan has said recently that he would merge a newer ext3 soon as the
maintainer sends him such a patch, but no sooner.  That was in response
to a few users asking why ext3 was "outdated" in his tree.

Attached is a patch against 2.4.10-ac3 of ext-0.9.9 + Ted's directory
speedup.  Bringing 0.9.10 inline with Alan will take some VM work, but
this is a start.

I've been using it for some time, and I am sure you have proved it
stable.  Can it be passed on to him?

Thanks,

-- 
Robert M. Love
rml at ufl.edu
rml at tech9.net