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

grundig
2006-06-14T13:53:22Z

El Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:35:43 +0400,
Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> escribió:

> >>>>> 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.

Distros may ignore your opinion and may enable it, and users won't know
that it's enabled or even if such feature exist - until they try to run
an older kernel. If almost nobody needs this feature, why not avoid
problems by not merging it and maintaining it separated from the
main tree?