Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
"Jeff Anderson-Lee" <[email protected]>
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Alex Tomas wrote: > > > I believe it's as stable as before until you mount with extents > > mount option. > > In contrast, the last time two different filesystems introduced bugs in > each other was approximately "never". They simply don't modify each others > code, they don't look at each others data structures, and they don't jump > into each others routines. As an interested bystander (and large filesystem user), I'd say I tend to agree with Linus and Jeff on this one. * ext3 is arguably the main Linux filesystem: too important to keep "experimenting" with. * I'd encourage a >2TB version, but call it ext4. It makes it clear that you are entering new territory. * Take advantage of the switch to remove some of the backward compatibility cruft from the ext4 version -- make it a clean, explicit break. * [Possibly even inoculate ext3 against creeping featuris and work on cleanup and optimization instead.] This is not intended to slight the work/position of the ext3 developers, merely to inform them of an end-user's perspective. ---- Jeff Anderson-Lee Petabyte Storage Infrastructure Project University of California Berkeley "Simplify, simplify, simplify." -- Henry David Thoreau "I think one 'simplify' would have sufficed." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson - 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