Re: [TRIVIAL] use ext2/ext3 consistently in Kconfig

From: Hans Reiser (reiser@namesys.com)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 08:59:24 EST


Alan Cox wrote:

>On Sad, 2003-07-26 at 20:57, Tomas Szepe wrote:
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>>$subj + also clarify what fs versions the current reiser module supports.
>>Patch against -bk3.
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>>This is the journaling version of the Second extended file system
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>- (often called ext3), the de facto standard Linux file system
>+ (often called ext2), the de facto standard Linux file system
> (method to organize files on a storage device) for hard disks.
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>It is called ext3 not ext2. This change is dubious (actually the big
>problem is it is totally unclear what we are discussing the name of.
>How about
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> Ext3 is the journalling versions of the second extended file system
>(ext2). Ext2 was the former de-facto standard Linux file system
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on redhat.... or did you mean long ago.... ;-)

>. Ext3
>uses the same on disk layout but with a journal.
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