Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

Alex Tomas
2006-06-14T16:44:25Z

>>>>> 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