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    SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
    On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 04:50:36PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
    > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:38:03PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote:
    > > that the older code cannot read. Alex claims people just shouldn't use
    > > "-o extents", but the fact is their distro will choose it for them.
    >
    > .. on partitions over a certain size, which couldn't be read with
    > older ext3 filesystems _anyway_

    Certainly that would be fine. Is that what will actually
    happen? Experience says no. Even if you get it right in your distro,
    not all distros will. Heck, can you promise me that your distro will
    provide e2fsprogs updates to its older releases so that multiboot will
    continue to work?

    Joel

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    "Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years."
    - Bob Brown

    Joel Becker
    Principal Software Developer
    Oracle
    E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com
    Phone: (650) 506-8127
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