Re: First draft list of 2.3.x "Things to fix"

From: Mike A. Harris (mharris@meteng.on.ca)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 12:13:06 EST


On 5 Jan 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>>I just came up with something else that'd be great to have in v2.4
>>
>>* ext3 (Depends on whether it's remotely close to something of a beta, at
>>least... (CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL would be nice here, at least))
>
>ext3 is not going in, but reiserfs might. Unlike ext3, raiserfs actually
>has gotten a lot of real-world testing: SuSE seems to be using it in
>production environments with good results. It's still 2.2.x-based, so it
>may not make it, but it is at least a potential thing.

That is great to hear. Hopefully the reiserfs people will clean
it up for 2.3.x soon. If it is not ready in time for 2.4
inclusion, would it be possible for inclusion in 2.4.x for some
low number of x so long as it doesn't muck with many kernel
internals?

A journalled fs would be great indeed, but not at risk of kernel
stability.

I'm glad to see that you're considering it though.

TTYL

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