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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:44:18 -0700
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:35:43PM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote:
> that's your point of view. mine is that this option (and code)
> to be used only when needed. 

	Which is irrelevant.  If you tell the world "extents are
better!", they're going to turn them on regardless of whether you
consider their situation a good candidate.  Many non-kernel-hackers
started using reiserfs before it was usably stable, just because
"journaling is better!"

Joel

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