Re: Collapse ext2 and 3 please

[Andrew Morton]

Sean Neakums <sneakums@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I seem to remember somebody, I think maybe Andrew Morton, suggesting
> that a no-journal mode be added to ext3 so that ext2 could be removed.
> I can't find the message in question right now, though.

I think it could be done, mainly as a kernel-space-saving exercise.  But
the two filesystems are quite different nowadays.

ext2 uses per-inode pagecache for directories, ext3 uses blockdev
pagecache.  The truncate algorithms are significantly different. Other stuff.

Much pain, little gain.
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