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

Alex Tomas wrote:

Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 JG> Irrelevant.  That's a development-only situation.  It will be enabled
 JG> by default eventually, and should be considered in that light.

that's your point of view. mine is that this option (and code)

to be used only when needed.

Regardless of any use "when needed," the code is in the codebase, and is thus the "if (metadata_v2) ... else ..." maintenance burden that has been discussed.

	Jeff



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