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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:38:03PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
 > that the older code cannot read.  Alex claims people just shouldn't use
 > "-o extents", but the fact is their distro will choose it for them.

.. on partitions over a certain size, which couldn't be read with
older ext3 filesystems _anyway_

Enabling it by default on partitions of a size less than those
that need extents seems to be somewhat pointless to me?

Am I missing something fundamental that precludes the use of both
extent-based and current existing filesystems from the same code
simultaneously ?

		Dave

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