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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:23:58 -0400
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Alex Tomas wrote:
> what if proposed patch is safer than an average fix?
> (given that it's just out of usage unless enabled)

Regardless of how you phrase it, it is an inescapable fact that you are 
developing new stuff in the main, supposedly-stable Linux filesystem.

	Jeff