From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030446AbWFITYG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:24:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030445AbWFITYF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:24:05 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:57242 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030442AbWFITYD (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:24:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4489CACE.5080701@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:23:58 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Tomas CC: Mike Snitzer , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 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> <4489C3D5.4030905@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.2 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Tomas wrote: > what if proposed patch is safer than an average fix? > (given that it's just out of usage unless enabled) Regardless of how you phrase it, it is an inescapable fact that you are developing new stuff in the main, supposedly-stable Linux filesystem. Jeff