Re: ext2/ext3 still under active maintenance?

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  Hello,

> 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 But am I going to get an outdated view of the right way to 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?
  Definitely you won't get an outdated view of how a filesystem is written.
ext4 uses ext3 code as its baseline and although there are new features
flowing in, the basic things stay the same.

								Honza
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