Re: Proposal and plan for ext2/3 future development work

[Andi Kleen]

"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> 1) The creation of a new filesystem codebase in the 2.6 kernel tree in
> /usr/src/linux/fs/ext4 that will initially register itself as the
> "ext3dev" 

Why not call it ext4 from the beginning too? Calling the directory
differently from the file system can only cause confusion.

I assume if it's marked very experimental people who value their data
will avoid it for the time being.

-Andi
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