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

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.file-systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> 	So you you would be in OK of a model where we copy fs/ext3 to
> "fs/ext4", and do development there which would merged rapidly into
> mainline so that people who want to participate in testing can use
> ext3dev, while people who want stability can use ext3 --- and at some
> point, we remove the old ext3 entirely and let fs/ext4 register itself
> as both the ext3 and ext4 filesystem, and at some point in the future,
> remove the ext3 name entirely?

Yep, and in addition I would argue that you can take the opportunity to 
make ext4 default to extents-enabled, and some similar behavior changes 
(dir_index default?).  The existence of both ext3 and ext4 means you can 
be more aggressive in turning on stuff, IMO.

	Jeff
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