Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
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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 -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - 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