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Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 23:54:51 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI in 2.5
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Steffen Persvold wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > > Solaris and FreeBSD put all the effort into one filesystem trying to make
> > > it as good as possible. In Linux, it seems that nobody prooved the overall
> > > concept of the kernel.
> >
> > Apply http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/2.5/2.5.25/ext3-htree.patch
> > to your 2.5.25 tree, mount with `-o index' and enjoy watching ext3 eat
> > Solaris and FreeBSD's lunch.
> >
> > htree isn't quite ready yet and development seems a little moribund.
> > It'd be nice to get it finished off.
> >
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> Will the patch ever be backported to 2.4 ?
> 

That's a 2.5 forward-port, actually.  Christopher, Daniel, Stephen
and co are working against 2.4.

It mostly works, but seems to still need a bit of debugging of corner
cases and general hardening up.

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