Hi, >> I would recommend that, at a minimum, this proposal include >> journaling. Some form of journaling or enhanced data >> integrity guarantee is pretty much a requirement for file >> systems now. >> >> If you include journaling during the initial implementation, >> it will almost certainly be easier (technically) and lower >> risk than adding it later. And it avoids a potential >> on-disk format change later, which is always a good thing. >> > >ext3 as successor of ext2 didn't change on-disk format a lot, it is even >possible to force mounting of ext3 as ext2. And future fork to ext3 is >only depending on brain&manpower :-) > I agree.
>> >> Is the plan to support the creation of ext file systems, >> which would require utilities to do so, or just to mount >> and work on existing ext file systems? >> > >As supervisor of the master thesis I requested only filesystem driver >and mount utility. If somebody will need mkext2fs and fsck.ext2, he >could recompile needed GNU utilities for it probably. > GNU e2fsprogs can be compiled right now (by gcc or by Sun cc). Best regards, Honza _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
