From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030222AbWFIRKf (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:10:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030246AbWFIRKe (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:10:34 -0400 Received: from [80.71.248.82] ([80.71.248.82]:40880 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030222AbWFIRKd (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:10:33 -0400 X-Comment-To: Jeff Garzik To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Alex Tomas , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 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> <4489A7ED.8070007@garzik.org> From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:12:19 +0400 In-Reply-To: <4489A7ED.8070007@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:55:09 -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 >>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> That is what the entirety of Linux development is -- step-by-step. JG> It is OBVIOUS that it would take five minutes to start ext4. right. it's not a problem to *start*. it's a problem it maintain. day by day fs/ext3 and fs/ext4 will get more and more diffs. at some point it will be a headache to apply patches from ext3 to ext4 and back. I known this very well .... thanks, Alex