From: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." Subject: ext2/ext3 still under active maintenance? Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:48:01 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii To: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from hammerhead.shentel.net ([204.111.1.228]:51202 "EHLO hammerhead.shentel.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753832AbXC0NAD (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:00:03 -0400 Received: from sigma.j-a-k-j.com (jakj@n152s125.ntc.blacksburg.shentel.net [204.111.152.125]) by hammerhead.shentel.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2RCm1sK018336 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:48:01 -0400 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org I'm trying to look at the ext2/ext3 source for learning Linux FS development. I'm avoiding ext4 for now because it's under active development and it's too much to chew before I understand the previous versions. But am I going to get an outdated view of the right way to program filesystems if I look at those, or is the code just as shiny as ext4's?