Re: fsync on large files

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 17 Feb 1999 09:27:46 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> This is already working. I'm currently extending ext2fs to call the
> joural API to clearly demarkate the beginning and end of each
> individual filesystem operation, so that the "patches" (ie. the
> journaling transactions) correspond to complete transitions from one
> consistent filesystem state to another.

Stephen, I'v etold you before: I will not accept these kinds of extensions
to ext2. Make a new filesystem, and if you want, re-use the code (and the
layout) of ext2.

There's not a chance in hell that I will ever release a kernel with these
kinds of major fs modifications - call it "ext3" and after a year or so of
in-production use we can drop ext2.

Linus

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