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

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:28:09 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.file-systems
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
> 
>  JG> If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default
>  JG> (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever
>  JG> use the feature.  And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the
>  JG> _main_ filesystem for Linux.
> 
> strictly speaking, not that many users really need >2TB fs ...

Not true.  Terabyte SATA drives are less than a year away.  2TB 
drives... probably 2 years?

	Jeff