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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 12:10:59 -0400
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Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Linus Torvalds (LT) writes:
> 
> 
>  LT> Quite frankly, at this point, there's no way in hell I believe we can do 
>  LT> major surgery on ext3. It's the main filesystem for a lot of users, and 
>  LT> it's just not worth the instability worries unless it's something very 
>  LT> obviously transparent.
> 
> I believe it's as stable as before until you mount with extents
> mount option.

If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default 
(either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever use 
the feature.  And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the _main_ 
filesystem for Linux.

	Jeff