>>>>> Joel Becker (JB) writes: JB> When I say "you", I mean the general consensus. You can scream JB> "don't do this" as loud as you want, the world might drown you out. Not JB> every random person that sees "new extents in ext3" is going to know JB> that Alex is the authority. They certainly aren't going to read the JB> documentation. They'll read some comment on some website that says "all JB> you need is '-o extents'!" two point here: a) warnings should be made visible at mount time, something like printk(KERN_CRIT ...) b) I don't think you're going to fight all crazy people in the world, they'll definitely find a way to break something: data or something else. thanks, Alex PS. in the end, "extents" option affects *new* files only. and one can boot extents-enabled kernel and convert fs back. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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