On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Gerrit Huizenga wrote: > > Jeff's approach taken to the rediculous would mean that we'd have > ext versions 1-40 by now at least. I don't think that helps much, > either. On the other hand, I _guarantee_ you that it helps that we have ext2-3, and not just ext2 (nobody even tried to keep ext1 compatible, thank the Gods). If for no other reason, than the fact that the ext3 development could be much more aggressive early on. Exactly because it did NOT screw up the old filesystem that everybody else depended on. So we have empirical evidence that splitting filesystem work up does actually help. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
