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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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