From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030382AbWFIXht (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:37:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030378AbWFIXht (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:37:49 -0400 Received: from mail.clusterfs.com ([206.168.112.78]:42967 "EHLO mail.clusterfs.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030376AbWFIXhs (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:37:48 -0400 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:37:54 -0600 From: Andreas Dilger To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Dave Jones , Theodore Tso , Alex Tomas , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Message-ID: <20060609233754.GO5964@schatzie.adilger.int> Mail-Followup-To: Jeff Garzik , Dave Jones , Theodore Tso , Alex Tomas , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org References: <4489A7ED.8070007@garzik.org> <20060609195750.GD10524@thunk.org> <20060609203803.GF3574@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> <20060609205036.GI7420@redhat.com> <4489E8EF.5020508@garzik.org> <20060609225604.GK5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <4489FFB8.3070203@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4489FFB8.3070203@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: 1024D/0D35BED6 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7A37 5D79 BF1B CECA D44F 8A29 A488 39F5 0D35 BED6 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Jun 09, 2006 19:09 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andreas Dilger wrote: > >Maybe we should start by deleting ext2 because it is old and obsolete? > >The reality is that we will never merge the forks back once they are made. > > We _already have_ a relevant example: ext2 -> ext3. > > A useful fork is in the tree, and you're working on it. OK, you're right. We'll continue working on the fork (namely ext3) and when people who care consider those features stable enough they can port them to ext2. :-) Like another person pointed out - there are bugs that are fixed in ext3 that aren't in fixed ext2, and vice versa. Even though the ext2 code is basically dead, new bugs are still found in it. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc.