> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:27:17 +0100 (CET) Grzegorz Kulewski <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:38:13 +0000 Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> 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?
It's a patch which cross-ports ext3's block-reservation code into ext2. > When can I read about it (description of the new method/implementation in > ext3 and why is it better) some more? Hard. google(ext3 reservations) is a starting point. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
