On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 03:00:28PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> AFAIK the original stated intention of ext3 was
>
> cd linux/fs
> cp -a ext2 ext3
> # hack on ext3
>
> That leaves ext2 in ultra-stability,
> no-patches-unless-absolutely-necessary mode.
>
> IMHO prove a new feature, like directories in page cache, journaling,
> etc. in ext3 first. Then maybe after a year of testing, if people
> actually care, backport those features to ext2.
Alternatively, once we get ext3 with just journaling stable (and with
an option to not do journaling at all), simply do something like this:
cd linux/fs
rm -f ext2
mv ext3 ext2
cp -r ext2 ext3
# hack hack hack on ext3 and add even more features
So ext3 is always the "development version", and "ext2 is the stable
version".
- Ted
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