From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030426AbWFITU4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:20:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030425AbWFITUz (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:20:55 -0400 Received: from [80.71.248.82] ([80.71.248.82]:37525 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030421AbWFITUx (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:20:53 -0400 X-Comment-To: Jeff Garzik To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mike Snitzer , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hch@infradead.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060609091327.GA3679@infradead.org> <20060609030759.48cd17a0.akpm@osdl.org> <44899653.1020007@garzik.org> <20060609095620.22326f9d.akpm@osdl.org> <4489AAD9.80806@garzik.org> <20060609103543.52c00c62.akpm@osdl.org> <4489B452.4050100@garzik.org> <4489B719.2070707@garzik.org> <170fa0d20606091127h735531d1s6df27d5721a54b80@mail.gmail.com> <4489C3D5.4030905@garzik.org> From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:22:23 +0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org what if proposed patch is safer than an average fix? (given that it's just out of usage unless enabled) thanks, Alex >>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> Mike Snitzer wrote: >> On 6/9/06, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> Jeff Garzik wrote: >>> > I disagree completely... it would be an obvious win: people who want >>> > stability get that, people who want new features get that too. >>> >>> And developers have a better outlet for their wacky developmental >>> urges... >> >> And no real-world near-term progress is made for production users with >> modern requirements. What you're advocating breeds instability in the >> near-term. JG> Constantly patching the main, "stable" Linux filesystem breeds JG> instability today. JG> Jeff JG> _______________________________________________ JG> Ext2-devel mailing list JG> Ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net JG> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ext2-devel