Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
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Sonny Rao <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:35:43AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > <snip> > > All that being said, Linux's filesystems are looking increasingly crufty > > and we are getting to the time where we would benefit from a greenfield > > start-a-new-one. > > I'm curious about this comment; in what way are they _collectively_ > looking crufty ? We seem to be lagging behind "the industry" in some areas - handling large devices, high bandwidth IO, sophisticated on-disk data structures, advanced manageability, etc. I mean, although ZFS is a rampant layering violation and we can do a lot of the things in there (without doing it all in the fs!) I don't think we can do all of it. We're continuing to nurse along a few basically-15-year-old filesystems while we do have the brains, manpower and processes to implement a new, really great one. It's just this feeling I have ;) - 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