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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:04:39 -0400
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Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
> 
>  JG> Alex Tomas wrote:
>  >> at the moment there is no way to "boot w/ extents". you must enable
>  >> them by mount option.
> 
>  JG> Think about how distros will deploy this feature.  Also, think about
>  JG> how scalable that line of thinking is...
> 
> I may be wrong, but I tend to think if they're stupid enough to enable
> experimental mount option by default, they can do s/ext3/ext4 as well.

<sigh>  At some point in the future, it will not be experimental.

	Jeff