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

Erik Mouw
2006-06-09T16:24:08Z

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:10:59PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Alex Tomas wrote:
> > I believe it's as stable as before until you mount with extents
> > mount option.
>
> If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default
> (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever use
> the feature. And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the _main_
> filesystem for Linux.

Why not? That's how htree dir indexing got in, and AFAIK most distros
use it as a default.

Erik

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