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

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Sun Jun 11 2006 - 11:51:33 EST


On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 21:44 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> OTOH the number of complaints about this is minimal, people want to go
> forwards in a controlled manner not backwards.

well... they want to be able to go "a little bit" backwards; say one
version of an OS (6 months). Eg the scenario that ought to work is "go
to newer version, hate it, go back". But yes that's a limited time to go
back, not the "go back to 2.2" kind of "go back".

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