Re: fsync on large files

Stephen C. Tweedie (sct@redhat.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:00:41 GMT


Hi,

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 18:57:55 +0100 (CET), Ingo Molnar <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu> said:

> On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

>> > kinds of major fs modifications - call it "ext3" and after a year or so of
>> > in-production use we can drop ext2.
>>
>> And funnily enough the instructions for applying his patch start
>> "copy fs/ext2 to fs/ext3 then..."

> ... then it continues with touching 90% of the ext2fs code.

Sheesh, Ingo, I showed you the patch and even explicitly pointed out
this fact: the patch performs a global s/ext2/ext3/ on the ext2fs
code. There are very few changes to the code other than that: there
are calls to associate buffer udpates to existing transactions and
there is obviously superblock magic in the mount code, but there are
no wholesale modifications to the filesystem.

--Stephen

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