Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:44:18 -0700 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:35:43PM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote: > that's your point of view. mine is that this option (and code) > to be used only when needed.
Which is irrelevant. If you tell the world "extents are better!", they're going to turn them on regardless of whether you consider their situation a good candidate. Many non-kernel-hackers started using reiserfs before it was usably stable, just because "journaling is better!"
Joel
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