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

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.file-systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> 
> It's funny that everyone is arguing to fork ext3 into ext4, for a feature
> that will primarily allow it to work with large disks (that are already
> here, not some wacky pipe dream of featuritis as Jeff thinks).  Yet the
> same people that are advocating code duplication on a massive scale in
> ext4 are against 5 lines of duplication between the VFS and a filesystem,
> or in a couple of drivers here and there.

You haven't actually listened to any of the arguments, have you?

Please remove me from the Cc on this thread. I'm not interested. 

		Linus
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