Re: NTFS

[Andrew Morton]

> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:38:13 +0000 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:35:06PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Cool.  That means ->put_inode is gone in -mm.  Andrew, what are the
> > > plans for sending the patches to make the ext2 preallocation work
> > > like ext3 to Linus?  
> > 
> > Cautious.  I'm not sure that we ever want to merge them, really - ext2 is
> > more a reference filesystem than a real one nowadays, and making it more
> > complex detracts from that.
> 
> The again while the old preallocation code might be simpler it's also utterly
> braindead and we need to make sure no one is going to copy this :)

Good point ;)
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