> hans@grumbeer.inka.de (Hans-Joachim Baader) writes:
> > I guess something should be done, but not this way. There are
> > several new filesystems under construction. Perhaps one of these
> > can implement some optimizations.
>
> There are indeed a number under development, but I was more looking
> for something that would be useable in the short term.
No way your proposal would be stable in any sort of short term.
> Ext2 is a nice fast filesystem. This is a relatively small change that
> would hopefully make it faster yet, without noticeable cost.
This is a fairly dramatic change. The result is no more ext2 than ext2 is
minix.
MfG Kai