From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270741AbTG0LIQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:08:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270745AbTG0LIQ (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:08:16 -0400 Received: from louise.pinerecords.com ([213.168.176.16]:21214 "EHLO louise.pinerecords.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270741AbTG0LIM (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:08:12 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:23:21 +0200 From: Tomas Szepe To: Alan Cox Cc: Linus Torvalds , lkml Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] use ext2/ext3 consistently in Kconfig Message-ID: <20030727112321.GF17724@louise.pinerecords.com> References: <20030726195722.GB16160@louise.pinerecords.com> <1059303927.12758.10.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1059303927.12758.10.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > [alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] > > It is called ext3 not ext2. This change is dubious (actually the big > problem is it is totally unclear what we are discussing the name of. > How about > > Ext3 is the journalling versions of the second extended file system > (ext2). Ext2 was the former de-facto standard Linux file system. Ext3 > uses the same on disk layout but with a journal. > ... I already posted a patch that read: + Ext3 is a journaling version of the Second extended fs + (or just ext2fs), the de facto standard Linux filesystem + (method to organize files on a storage device) for block + devices such as hard disk partitions. I can resend with your version, though we have an almost perfect match as far as the first clause goes. :) -- Tomas Szepe