From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Updated ext4/jbd2 patches based on 2.6.19-rc1 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 13:19:39 -0700 Message-ID: <20061005131939.ccd1fd48.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1160072610.8508.12.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ext4 development , Linus Torvalds Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:8593 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751222AbWJEUT4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 16:19:56 -0400 To: Dave Kleikamp In-Reply-To: <1160072610.8508.12.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:23:30 -0500 Dave Kleikamp wrote: > I have rebuilt the ext4/jbd2 patches against linux-2.6.19-rc1. The > patch set is located at > ftp://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/shaggy/ext4/2.6.19-rc1/ext4-patches-2.6.19-rc1.tar.gz > > Broken out patches in > ftp://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/shaggy/ext4/2.6.19-rc1/ext4-patches > > The patches begin with exact copies of the rc1 version of ext3 and jbd, > so there are no ext3/jbd patches currently in mainline that need to be > applied to the new code. I'll continue to watch ext3/jbd for patches > that need to be ported to ext4/jbd2. OK... Linus, what's the best way of doing this? Will git dtrt with a patch which copies files, or would a script which does the mkdir's and cp's be better?