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

Alex Tomas
2006-06-09T17:10:35Z

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

JG> That is what the entirety of Linux development is -- step-by-step.

JG> It is OBVIOUS that it would take five minutes to start ext4.

right. it's not a problem to *start*. it's a problem it maintain.
day by day fs/ext3 and fs/ext4 will get more and more diffs.
at some point it will be a headache to apply patches from ext3
to ext4 and back. I known this very well ....

thanks, Alex