Mike Snitzer wrote:
Developers never _want_ to branch (maintenance-hell), the question becomes: do the risks associated with ext3-with-extents' backword incompatibility _really_ justify the branch?
It's also a question of... why keep adding modernizing features to ext3, thus keeping it on life support, but just barely? If we are going to modernize the _main Linux filesystem_, let's not do it in a way that is slow, and ties our hands.
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