Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272276AbTHNQlP (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:41:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272415AbTHNQlP (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:41:15 -0400 Received: from code.and.org ([63.113.167.33]:26289 "EHLO mail.and.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272276AbTHNQlI (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Aug 2003 12:41:08 -0400 To: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] file extents for EXT3 References: <3F3791C8.4090903@pobox.com> <20030811095518.T7752@schatzie.adilger.int> <3F37C2EB.5050503@pobox.com> <20030813043218.GC1244@think> From: James Antill Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Date: 14 Aug 2003 12:41:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030813043218.GC1244@think> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 18 Theodore Ts'o writes: > I would like to add "no journal" support to ext3, and then rename it > to ext2. At some level, the only reason why we called it ext3 was > mainly for the code stability issue. (Well, that and in case people > wanted a slightly smaller variant of ext2/3 --- but the people who > care about size issues will likely be in embedded applications, and in > those applications they will probably want to use something like jffs2 > anyway.) I presume that this option to ext3 would also restore the ext2 behaviour for fsync()? -- # James Antill -- james@and.org :0: * ^From: .*james@and\.org /dev/null - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/