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Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
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From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:02:16 +0400
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>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 JG> Alex Tomas wrote:
 >> at the moment there is no way to "boot w/ extents". you must enable
 >> them by mount option.

 JG> Think about how distros will deploy this feature.  Also, think about
 JG> how scalable that line of thinking is...

I may be wrong, but I tend to think if they're stupid enough to enable
experimental mount option by default, they can do s/ext3/ext4 as well.

thanks, Alex