From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030380AbWFJNtp (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:49:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030388AbWFJNtp (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:49:45 -0400 Received: from mailout.stusta.mhn.de ([141.84.69.5]:11530 "HELO mailout.stusta.mhn.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030377AbWFJNto (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:49:44 -0400 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 15:49:46 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Mike Snitzer Cc: Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Message-ID: <20060610134946.GC11634@stusta.de> References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060609091327.GA3679@infradead.org> <20060609030759.48cd17a0.akpm@osdl.org> <44899653.1020007@garzik.org> <20060609095620.22326f9d.akpm@osdl.org> <4489AAD9.80806@garzik.org> <20060609103543.52c00c62.akpm@osdl.org> <4489B452.4050100@garzik.org> <4489B719.2070707@garzik.org> <170fa0d20606091127h735531d1s6df27d5721a54b80@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <170fa0d20606091127h735531d1s6df27d5721a54b80@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:27:53PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > On 6/9/06, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> I disagree completely... it would be an obvious win: people who want > >> stability get that, people who want new features get that too. > > > >And developers have a better outlet for their wacky developmental urges... > > And no real-world near-term progress is made for production users with > modern requirements. What you're advocating breeds instability in the > near-term. There's also the old-fashioned "no regressions" requirement. You are trading near-term instability for the few users with "modern requirements" against possible regressions for a large userbase. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed