Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

Matthew Frost <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
> 
>  JG> Think about how this will be deployed in production, long term.
> 
>  JG> If extents are not made default at some point, then no one will use
>  JG> the feature, and it should not be merged.
> 
> sorry, I disagree. for example, NUMA isn't default and shouldn't be.
> but we have it in the tree and any one may choose to use it.

NUMA is designed to cope with a hardware feature, which not everybody 
has.  Filesystem upgrades are not qualitatively similar; it does not 
depend on one's hardware design as to whether one uses ext3, let alone 
extents.  Your logic is faulty.

  the same
> with extents. let's have it in. but let's make clear it's experimental,
> it makes sense for large files only, it isn't backward compatible and
> so on.
> 
> thanks, Alex
> 
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