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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09T16:11:07Z

Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Linus Torvalds (LT) writes:
>
>
> LT> Quite frankly, at this point, there's no way in hell I believe we can do
> LT> major surgery on ext3. It's the main filesystem for a lot of users, and
> LT> it's just not worth the instability worries unless it's something very
> LT> obviously transparent.
>
> 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.

Jeff