Alex Tomas wrote:
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.
No -- that's a bad way to develop it, and a good way to ensure it will never get stable.
You want to start from a known good point, and keep it working. Standard iterative development model.
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