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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09T19:35:51Z

Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
>
> JG> Irrelevant. That's a development-only situation. It will be enabled
> JG> by default eventually, and should be considered in that light.
>
> that's your point of view. mine is that this option (and code)
> to be used only when needed.

Regardless of any use "when needed," the code is in the codebase, and is
thus the "if (metadata_v2) ... else ..." maintenance burden that has
been discussed.

Jeff