Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

[Jeff Garzik]

Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:10:59PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Alex Tomas wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> Why not? That's how htree dir indexing got in, and AFAIK most distros
> use it as a default.

The question is not today's usage, but long term production usage.  If 
it is destined to be default eventually, then it's not a 1% case.

	Jeff



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