Re: NTFS

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:27:17 +0100 (CET) Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:38:13 +0000 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.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?

It's a patch which cross-ports ext3's block-reservation code into ext2.

> When can I read about it (description of the new method/implementation in 
> ext3 and why is it better) some more?

Hard.  google(ext3 reservations) is a starting point.