Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

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Alex Tomas wrote:
Linus Torvalds (LT) writes:


LT> Quite frankly, at this point, there's no way in hell I believe we can do LT> major surgery on ext3. It's the main filesystem for a lot of users, and LT> it's just not worth the instability worries unless it's something very LT> obviously transparent.

I believe it's as stable as before until you mount with extents
mount option.

If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever use the feature. And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the _main_ filesystem for Linux.

	Jeff



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