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SubjectRe: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Joel Becker wrote:

> Heck, forget the name, just make the breakage more explicit. Do
> it at mkfs/tunefs time. "tunefs -extents" or "mkfs -t ext3 -extents".
> A mount option assumes that you can do with or without it. If you do it
> once, you can mount the next time without it and stuff Just Works. Even
> htree follows this. A clean unmount leaves a clean directory structure
> that a non-htree driver can use.

I suggested this somewhere back in the thread and it got no play. What's
the problem with doing things this way? (Aside from it being a compromise
that doesn't automatically result in a new ext4)

Of course, there are a few debates going on here. Only one of them is
about compatibility.

>
> Joel
>

Cheers,
Chase
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