Re: Why Ext3? [WAS: Re: Copying Data Blocks]

2009-01-15 Thread Sandeep K Sinha
Hi Greg, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 8:53 PM, Greg Freemyer wrote: > HSM team, > > Reading this thread got me taking a basic look at ext4 for the first time. > > I get the impression from what I read that ext3 is basically feature > frozen for new features and that major improvements like a HSM would

Why Ext3? [WAS: Re: Copying Data Blocks]

2009-01-14 Thread Greg Freemyer
HSM team, Reading this thread got me taking a basic look at ext4 for the first time. I get the impression from what I read that ext3 is basically feature frozen for new features and that major improvements like a HSM would need to go into ext4 if they are to be accepted into the kernel. Why are