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

[Bodo Eggert <7eggert@elstempel.de>]

grundig <grundig@teleline.es> wrote:
> Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> escribió:

>> that's your point of view. mine is that this option (and code)
>> to be used only when needed.
> 
> Distros may ignore your opinion and may enable it, and users won't know
> that it's enabled or even if such feature exist - until they try to run
> an older kernel. If almost nobody needs this feature, why not avoid
> problems by not merging it and maintaining it separated from the
> main tree?

Distros might patch their kernel to support this feature and enable it,
therefore you MUST NOT release new features AT ALL!!!1 - NOT

If a distro decides to enable a non-backward-compatible feature without
warning, it's their fault.

BTW: Upgrading a filesystem by using mount options _and_ forcing that
option to be supplied on subsequent mounts is a BUG. If should be what
current code demands, it should be fixed ASAP. I hope that's not what
the current code does.
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