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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 20:25:03 +0400
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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 JG> If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default
 JG> (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever
 JG> use the feature.  And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the
 JG> _main_ filesystem for Linux.

strictly speaking, not that many users really need >2TB fs ...

thanks, Alex