From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Tomas Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:45:50 +0400 Message-ID: References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <4488E1A4.20305@garzik.org> <20060609083523.GQ5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <44898EE3.6080903@garzik.org> <448992EB.5070405@garzik.org> <20060609181020.GB5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <1149880865.22124.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4489CB42.6020709@garzik.org> <20060611221438.cecef685.grundig@teleline.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: akpm@osdl.org, jeff@garzik.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, chase.venters@clientec.com, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Tomas , adilger@clusterfs.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Return-path: To: grundig In-Reply-To: <20060611221438.cecef685.grundig@teleline.es> (grundig@teleline.es's message of "Sun, 11 Jun 2006 22:14:46 +0200 (added by postmaster@terra.es)") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org >>>>> grundig (g) writes: g> Distros may ignore your opinion and may enable it, and users won't know g> that it's enabled or even if such feature exist - until they try to run g> an older kernel. If almost nobody needs this feature, why not avoid g> problems by not merging it and maintaining it separated from the g> main tree? not sure, in such a distro such an user will be aware he's using ext4. about "nobody needs ...": see my question regarding NUMA in kernel. thanks, Alex