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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 16:10:30 -0400
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Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
> 
>  JG> Rather than taking another decade to slowly fix ext2 design decisions, 
>  JG> why not move the process along a bit more rapidly?  Release early, 
>  JG> release often...
> 
> that could be true, if we were talking about something yet to be
> designed, coded and tested.

'cp ext3 ext4' already has its first two features:  extents and 48bit. 
And it works today.  Tested to the extent that the submittor has tested it.

	Jeff