Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> Jeff's approach taken to the rediculous would mean that we'd have
> ext versions 1-40 by now at least.  I don't think that helps much,
> either.

That's plainly silly.  Like everything else in life, it is a balance of 
costs.

At some point, ext3's fs-feature-flag approach increases the 
combinations of metadata variants you must support exponentially.

Moving to extents and 48bit (which I want) is a big enough step that, 
IMO, some of the support costs become far more obvious.

	Jeff


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