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

[grundig <grundig@teleline.es>]

El Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:35:43 +0400,
Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> escribió:

> >>>>> 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. 


Distros may ignore your opinion and may enable it, and users won't know
that it's enabled or even if such feature exist - until they try to run
an older kernel. If almost nobody needs this feature, why not avoid
problems by not merging it and maintaining it separated from the
main tree?
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