Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Erik Mouw <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:10:59PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alex Tomas wrote: > > 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. Why not? That's how htree dir indexing got in, and AFAIK most distros use it as a default. Erik -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html