IMHO ... the main reason is that ext4 would be treated as a new generation fs which will be used for lots of new features probably. and it will take long to get into production-ready state. at the same time, proposed patches (at least extents itself) are heavily tested in production and could be made available for our users very soon. thanks, Alex >>>>> Linus Torvalds (LT) writes: LT> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Alex Tomas wrote: >> >> would "#if CONFIG_EXT3_EXTENTS" be a good solution then? LT> Let's put it this way: LT> - have you had _any_ valid argument at all against "ext4"? LT> Think about it. Honestly. Tell me anything that doesn't work? LT> Linus - 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
