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From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:10:08 +0400
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>>>>> 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.

thanks, Alex