From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751606AbWFKPwn (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:52:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751631AbWFKPwn (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:52:43 -0400 Received: from vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net ([216.142.194.234]:30376 "EHLO vbn.0050556.lodgenet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751054AbWFKPwm (ORCPT ); Sun, 11 Jun 2006 11:52:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Alan Cox Cc: Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , adilger@clusterfs.com, torvalds@osdl.org, alex@clusterfs.com, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1149885844.22124.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <4488E1A4.20305@garzik.org> <20060609083523.GQ5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <44898EE3.6080903@garzik.org> <448992EB.5070405@garzik.org> <20060609181020.GB5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <4489C0B8.7050400@garzik.org> <20060609115936.2fdda6d0.akpm@osdl.org> <1149885844.22124.83.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 17:52:25 +0200 Message-Id: <1150041145.3131.76.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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".