>>>>> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html