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

From: Jeff Garzik
Date: Fri Jun 09 2006 - 12:03:45 EST


Alex Tomas wrote:
Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

JG> Alex Tomas wrote:
>> at the moment there is no way to "boot w/ extents". you must enable
>> them by mount option.

JG> Think about how distros will deploy this feature. Also, think about
JG> how scalable that line of thinking is...

I may be wrong, but I tend to think if they're stupid enough to enable
experimental mount option by default, they can do s/ext3/ext4 as well.

<sigh> At some point in the future, it will not be experimental.

Jeff



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