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

Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:27:53PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On 6/9/06, Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >> I disagree completely...  it would be an obvious win:  people who want
> >> stability get that, people who want new features get that too.
> >
> >And developers have a better outlet for their wacky developmental urges...
> 
> And no real-world near-term progress is made for production users with
> modern requirements. What you're advocating breeds instability in the
> near-term.

There's also the old-fashioned "no regressions" requirement.

You are trading near-term instability for the few users with "modern 
requirements" against possible regressions for a large userbase.

cu
Adrian

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