Sorry, I meant we should be wary about what is moved from being development code to non-development code in the stable kernel.
> In any case, one could always mark XFS as "experimental" for some time.
Exactly, I think we should.
The distributions will 'mirror' that, by including support, but not making it obvious unless you poke around looking for it - so it gets the new feature out to the more users, but doesn't present it as just another option for newbies to select without realising what they are doing.
> >EXT2 is a very capable filesystem, and has *years* of proven
> >reliability. That's why I'm not going to switch away from it for
> >critical work any time soon.
>
> sure, if you can live with the fsck time on your 200 GB (or bigger)
> filesystem after the occasional crash.
But Linux doesn't crash... :-)
John.
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