Re: 2.2 kernel and ext3 filesystems

[Andrew Morton]

Chuck Campbell <campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:58:48PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Chuck Campbell <campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Was the ext3 filesystem ever back ported to the 2.2 kernel series?
> > 
> > It was written for 2.2, and then forward-ported.
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/sct/ext3/v2.2/
> 
> Interesting.  I looked at the system running 2.2, and there are no ext3
> options in the running config file.  It may have been later than 2.2.22...

ext3 was originally written for 2.2 but was never merged into the
mainstream kernel.   That happened in 2.4.15.

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