On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:30:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And I'm not saying that just because it's a filesystem, and people get > upset if they lose data. No, I'm saying it because from a maintenance > standpoint, such a filesystem has almost zero cost. One of the costs (and I'm not disagreeing with your main point; I think forking ext3 to ext4 at this point is reasonable), is that bugfixes applied to one don't necessarily get applied to the other. I found some recently between ext2 and ext3, and submitted those, but I only audited one file. There's lots more to look at and I just haven't found the time recently. Going to three variations is a lot more work for auditing, and it might be worth splitting some bits which genuinely are the same into common code. - 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
