> Ted Ts'o wrote:
> >The latest version of ext2 compression (which plays nicely with other
> >future ext2 extensions) is only a few weeks old at this point, and isn't
> >quite stable yet. When it gets stable, we can have a negotiation about
> >whether it goes into 2.2, but with the feature fereze starting, my
> >guess is that it won't quite make it...
> The latest versions of the VM & TCP code is also only a few weeks old at this
> point and isn't quite stable yet, but will make it into the 2.2 kernel. That
> argument doesn't cut it for me.
I disagree. VM and TCP can disconnect my box or even (gasp) crash the
kernel, but ext2fs code can corrupt my partitions and erase my data. I'd
*much* rather the new ext2fs code be well tested before integration.
--Scott
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