Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html