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

Linus Torvalds
2006-06-09T20:31:36Z

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> It's funny that everyone is arguing to fork ext3 into ext4, for a feature
> that will primarily allow it to work with large disks (that are already
> here, not some wacky pipe dream of featuritis as Jeff thinks). Yet the
> same people that are advocating code duplication on a massive scale in
> ext4 are against 5 lines of duplication between the VFS and a filesystem,
> or in a couple of drivers here and there.

You haven't actually listened to any of the arguments, have you?

Please remove me from the Cc on this thread. I'm not interested.

Linus