Re: [TRIVIAL] use ext2/ext3 consistently in Kconfig

From: Tomas Szepe (szepe@pinerecords.com)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 06:23:21 EST

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> [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk]
>
> It is called ext3 not ext2. This change is dubious (actually the big
> problem is it is totally unclear what we are discussing the name of.
> How about
>
> Ext3 is the journalling versions of the second extended file system
> (ext2). Ext2 was the former de-facto standard Linux file system. Ext3
> uses the same on disk layout but with a journal.
> ...

I already posted a patch that read:

+ Ext3 is a journaling version of the Second extended fs
+ (or just ext2fs), the de facto standard Linux filesystem
+ (method to organize files on a storage device) for block
+ devices such as hard disk partitions.

I can resend with your version, though we have an almost perfect match
as far as the first clause goes. :)

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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