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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09T16:29:03Z

Erik Mouw wrote:
> 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.

The question is not today's usage, but long term production usage. If
it is destined to be default eventually, then it's not a 1% case.

Jeff