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

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:28:54 -0400

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

Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:10:59PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Alex Tomas wrote:
>>> I believe it's as stable as before until you mount with extents
>>> mount option.
>> If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default 
>> (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever use 
>> the feature.  And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the _main_ 
>> filesystem for Linux.
> 
> Why not? That's how htree dir indexing got in, and AFAIK most distros
> use it as a default.

The question is not today's usage, but long term production usage.  If 
it is destined to be default eventually, then it's not a 1% case.

	Jeff