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From: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
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El Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:30:20 +0400,
Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> escribió:


>  LT> See? ext3 would become strictly _worse_ for the majority of users, who 
>  LT> wouldn't get any advantage. That's my point.
> 
> would "#if CONFIG_EXT3_EXTENTS" be a good solution then?

Not at all, a config option may be disabled by lots of distros
and make backwards compatibility even more difficult than
is already going to be.