Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
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Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>> 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 .... As Linus has stated, we have empirical evidence that splitting filesystems works, for both stability and development speed. The number of patches to ext[23] will trickle off over time. As the obvious example, ext4 would receive the extent and 48bit patches rather than ext3 :) Jeff - 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