Re: ext2 question

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Mon, 17 May 1999 01:18:54 +0300 (EEST)


"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> wrote:
> From: Manfred Spraul <manfreds@colorfullife.com>
>
> Are there any plans to support to a (start+len) system?
>
> Ted T'so was/is working on using btrees and extents in ext2.

Indeed, but the more we look at things, the more I think that we
should stop artificially breething more life into old system, and
start working on a 'ext3', which could do a much needed radical
(new mkfs) handling to existing filesystems for the new one.

> Later,
> David S. Miller

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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