Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
KELEMEN Peter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.file-systems |
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| Organization | CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Switzerland |
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* Alex Tomas ([email protected]) [20060609 20:48]: > I think about extents as a step-by-step way ... ...so call it ext4 *now* and have a complete rewrite of the whole codebase as ext5. Users get what they want now (ext4) and Linus gets what he wants later (ext5). Extents are useful for Joe Average User with <2 TB filesystems as well. It's already funny enough that I'm using e2* tools for managing ext3 filesystems... Peter -- .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'' Kelemen Péter / \ / \ [email protected] .+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' _______________________________________________ Ext2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ext2-devel