Re: NTFS

[Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:38:13 +0000 Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:35:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > > Cool.  That means ->put_inode is gone in -mm.  Andrew, what are the
> > > > plans for sending the patches to make the ext2 preallocation work
> > > > like ext3 to Linus?
> > >
> > > Cautious.  I'm not sure that we ever want to merge them, really - ext2 is
> > > more a reference filesystem than a real one nowadays, and making it more
> > > complex detracts from that.
> >
> > The again while the old preallocation code might be simpler it's also utterly
> > braindead and we need to make sure no one is going to copy this :)
>
> Good point ;)

Are you refering to that particular implementation in ext2 or to the 
whole method od doing it implemented currently in ext2?

When can I read about it (description of the new method/implementation in 
ext3 and why is it better) some more?


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

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