On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:33:04 -0700
Mingming Cao <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Mingming Cao wrote:
> >
> >> This series of patch forkes a new filesystem, ext4, from the current
> >> ext3 filesystem, as the code base to work on, for the big features such
> >> as extents and larger fs(48 bit blk number) support, per our discussion
> >> on lkml a few weeks ago.
> >
>
> > [...]
> >
> >> Any comments? Could we add ext4/jbd2 to mm tree for a wider testing?
> >
> >
> > ext4 developers should create a git tree with the consensus-accepted
> > patches.
> >
> > That way Linus can pull as soon as the merge window opens, Andrew is
> > guaranteed to have the latest in his -mm tree, and users and other
> > kernel hackers can easily follow the development without having to
> > gather scattered patches from lkml.
> >
>
> We do maintain a quilt(akpm) style patches on http://ext2.sf.net, the
> latest patches are always at
> http://ext2.sourceforge.net/48bitext3/patches/latest/
>
> We thought about doing git initially, still open for that doing do, if
> it's more preferable by Linus or Andrew. Just thought it's a lot
> easiler for non git user to pull the patches from a project website.
>
We should aim to get the big copy-ext3-to-ext4 patch into Linus's tree as
early as possible.
I'm just not sure when to do that. Immediately after 2.6.19-rc1 is
released would be good because it is when every tree (including -mm) is in
its most-synced-up state.
otoh, we should work out what our processes will be for keeping ext3 and
ext4 in sync wrt bugfixes, cleanups, speedups, etc. If those processes are
good, we can do the copy-n-paste any time. And they need to be good...
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