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

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 03:49:46PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > And no real-world near-term progress is made for production users with
> > modern requirements. What you're advocating breeds instability in the
> > near-term.
> 
> There's also the old-fashioned "no regressions" requirement.
> 
> You are trading near-term instability for the few users with "modern 
> requirements" against possible regressions for a large userbase.

Alex mentioned a few times that the extents code just adds three if.
I'm pretty sure that will not give you any regressions in the existing
codebase.  Can we concentrate on the more useful discussion topics now?

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