The various ac patches have had ext3 for some time. What is the difference between using Alan's patches vs the ext3 patches?
On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 01:59:55PM -0400, John Ruttenberg wrote:> The various ac patches have had ext3 for some time. What is the difference > between using Alan's patches vs the ext3 patches?Short answer: You get a kernel that works. :-P Seriously, the code merged into -ac is just less recent than CVS, but there are both -linus and -ac branches in the ext3 CVS repository, so you can patch -ac up to the latest ext3 code, if you like. Regards, Bill Rugolsky