Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:27:10 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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Mike Snitzer wrote: > Developers never _want_ to branch (maintenance-hell), the question > becomes: do the risks associated with ext3-with-extents' backword > incompatibility _really_ justify the branch?
It's also a question of... why keep adding modernizing features to ext3, thus keeping it on life support, but just barely? If we are going to modernize the _main Linux filesystem_, let's not do it in a way that is slow, and ties our hands.
Jeff
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