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

Alex Tomas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
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>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 JG> That is what the entirety of Linux development is -- step-by-step.

 JG> It is OBVIOUS that it would take five minutes to start ext4.

right. it's not a problem to *start*. it's a problem it maintain.
day by day fs/ext3 and fs/ext4 will get more and more diffs.
at some point it will be a headache to apply patches from ext3
to ext4 and back. I known this very well ....

thanks, Alex
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