On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 09:09:01 PDT, Linus Torvalds wrote:No problem. It didn't take long for ext3 - it won't take long for ext4.
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:I had originally argued for ext4 as well based on the fact that it would
Jeff's approach taken to the rediculous would mean that we'd haveOn the other hand, I _guarantee_ you that it helps that we have ext2-3, and not just ext2 (nobody even tried to keep ext1 compatible, thank the Gods).
ext versions 1-40 by now at least. I don't think that helps much,
either.
allow lots of potential cleanups & simplifications and at the same time
would allow a break in the on disk filesystems layout.
These changes don't yet change the actual on-disk layout and that might
be something that would be done if ext4 were a real, new filesystem.
But then how long until ext4 is used enough to be put into production?