Re: ext3 status?

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@timpanogas.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 14:34:52 EST


Stephen,

We are working on the on-disk conversion from Netware to EXT2 on disk
formats. I have not looked at the EXT3 code (but will soon). Were any
of the changes to the on-disk formats too radical that we should be
aware of?

Your friend,

Jeff

P.S. I'll grab a copy tonight and start looking at it.

"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 25 Feb 2000 16:33:39 +0100, Matthias Andree
> <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> said:
>
> > I just checked the ext3 FTP server and find it's still 0.0.2c that is
> > current, which is already 3 months, still the 2.2.13 patch.
>
> 0.0.3 should be out within the week. The journal abort code is complete
> now for response to fatal errors such as EIO in the journal.
>
> In doing this work I've found that there are a number of options for the
> future in terms of duplicating some journaling information to make it
> robust against IO errors during recovery, but I'll not hold up the 0.0.3
> release to do that --- that will have to come in the future, and there
> will be a journal format change involved. (Migration between the
> journal types will be simple, of course.)
>
> --Stephen
>
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