Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:38:13 +0000
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: NTFS
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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 :)
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