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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 20:48:58 +0400
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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 JG> It's also a question of...  why keep adding modernizing features to
 JG> ext3, thus keeping it on life support, but just barely?  If we are
 JG> going to modernize the _main Linux filesystem_, let's not do it in a
 JG> way that is slow, and ties our hands.

I think trying to solve all problems at once will take much longer.

thanks, Alex