About 3 weeks ago Steven sent a message to the kernel mailing list that
suggested that that although it's mostly complete it's not actually
functional yet (or wasn't) so don't expect "stable" patches or anything
just yet...
Any more and you'll have to ask somone that knows... or browse the kernel
lists around 10-15 Feb.
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi folks,
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> anyone care to guess how stable/useable this new ext2/ext3 filesystem is?
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> Where are the patches available, and has anyone actually used it successfully?
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> Thanks
> Ricardo
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> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:58:07 +0000 (GMT)
> A James Lewis wrote:
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> > I believe there are patches out there, but the general concensus is to
> > call it ext3 to avoid unnecessary use of new code in a mission critical
> > environment before it's fully stable.
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> > I think the patch instructions start with "cp -dpR fs/ext2 fs/ext3" or
> > some such.
> >
> > PS. Although my name is James Lewis, I am not [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I
> > wave at the person below who evidently is!
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> > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Henrik Johansson wrote:
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> > > > will be a journaling filesystem very soon. The way I remeber it, it's
> > > > already there in the developer tree almost ready to launch. The guy in
> > > > charge of it is called Steven Taylor if my memory serves me right, and
> you
> > > > can reach him at: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> . I think he said it was ready to use
> > >
> > > That would be Stephen Tweedie. He was talking about this at least as
> > > early as 5-98 at Linux Expo. What was said at Linux World?
> > >
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> > James ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > Vortex Internet
> > My operating system unders~1 long filena~1, and yours?
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