On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:32:34AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:

Are you sure?  This was her patch comment, from
[PATCH] ext4: Don't set EXTENTS_FL flag for fast symlinks:

You're right, I confused myself.

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But you do raise a good point that we need to support using the
extents format in order to support blocks > 2**32, so we can't just
arbitrary convert all symlinks to the old-style direct block maps.

... so I think we really *should* be unconditionally storing *long*
symlinks in extent format, on ext4... right?

Yes, I think so.  Being liberal in what you receive is probably a good
idea, but we should only store new symlinks in one standard format,
and the extents format makes sense since it will allow us to support
48-bit block numbers.

            	     	    	       	   - Ted