On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 at 15:59, MirJafar Ali wrote: > I studied some of the papers on file layout in ext2/ext3, but all the papers > are at least 10-12 years old. Do you mean "file layout" or "filsystem layout", as in "FHS"[0]? > Can someone give hints/reference of survey of changes in file > layout policies in the last 4-5 years ? What do you mean by "survey of changes"? The changes to ext2/3 can be seen in the kernel's version history (git log), starting at 2.6.12, IIRC. > I am interesting in knowing some weakness in ext2/ext3 that that possibly > our group can work on. A "weakness", you mean like a security flaw? Or perhaps I mis-parsed the sentence completely.... Christian. [0] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ -- BOFH excuse #289: Interference between the keyboard and the chair. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
