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

Alex Tomas
2006-06-09T15:53:42Z

>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

JG> think about The Experience: Suddenly users that could use 2.4.x and
JG> 2.6.x are locked into 2.6.18+, by the simple and common act of writing
JG> to a file.

sorry to repeat, but if they simple try 2.6.18, they won't get extents.
instead, they must specify extents mount option. and at this point
they must get clear that this is a way to get incompatible fs.

thanks, Alex