From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Organization: Boundaries Unlimited
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Subject: Re: document ext3 requirements
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 19:38:04 -0600
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On Sunday 04 January 2009 16:06:34 Theodore Tso wrote:
> True enough, although the newer SSD's will have this problem addressed
> (although at least initially, they are **far** more costly than the
> el-cheapo 32GB SD cards you can find at the checkout counter at Fry's
> alongside battery-powered shavers and trashy ipod speakers).

I have great faith in the ability of PC hardware to continue to be crap for 
the foreseeable future.

> I will stress again, that most of this doesn't belong in
> Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt, as most of this is *not*
> ext3-specific.

Yes and no.  Ext3 is enough of a "default" filesystem for Linux that some 
documentation on when _not_ to use sounds like a good idea.

That said, some kind of a "choosing a filesystem" file would be good, perhaps 
under the filesystems directory.  (Then the ext3 doc would just need a brief 
comment and a pointer to the other file.)

Rob
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