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SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] file extents for EXT3
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Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> I would like to add "no journal" support to ext3, and then rename it
> to ext2. At some level, the only reason why we called it ext3 was
> mainly for the code stability issue. (Well, that and in case people
> wanted a slightly smaller variant of ext2/3 --- but the people who
> care about size issues will likely be in embedded applications, and in
> those applications they will probably want to use something like jffs2
> anyway.)

I presume that this option to ext3 would also restore the ext2
behaviour for fsync()?

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