“Theodore Ts’o offered an insightful summary of issues affecting
future development on the ext3 filesystem, ‘it is clear that many
people feel they have a stake in the future development plans of
the ext2/ext3 filesystem, as it [is] one of the most popular and
commonly used filesystems, particular amongst the kernel
development community. For this reason, the stakes are higher than
it would be for other filesystems.’ He listed the three main
concerns for future development as stability, compatibility
confusion, and code complexity, ‘unfortunately, these various
concerns were sometimes mixed together in the discussion two months
ago, and so it was hard to make progress. Linus’s concern seems to
have been primarily the first point, with perhaps a minor
consideration of the 3rd. Others dwelled very heavily on the second
point…'”