>>>>> grundig (g) writes: g> Distros may ignore your opinion and may enable it, and users won't know g> that it's enabled or even if such feature exist - until they try to run g> an older kernel. If almost nobody needs this feature, why not avoid g> problems by not merging it and maintaining it separated from the g> main tree? not sure, in such a distro such an user will be aware he's using ext4. about "nobody needs ...": see my question regarding NUMA in kernel. 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