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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 21:12:19 +0400
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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 JG> That is what the entirety of Linux development is -- step-by-step.

 JG> It is OBVIOUS that it would take five minutes to start ext4.

right. it's not a problem to *start*. it's a problem it maintain.
day by day fs/ext3 and fs/ext4 will get more and more diffs.
at some point it will be a headache to apply patches from ext3
to ext4 and back. I known this very well ....

thanks, Alex