Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

Roman Zippel <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:19:54 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Eric Sandeen wrote:

> ext4 is being developed primarily to address scaling issues at the high end of
> the storage spectrum.  If you're concerned about carrying 64-bit containers,
> just use ext3, and be happy with your 32-bit, < 16TB filesystems, I'd say.

The problem being that it doesn't _exclusively_ address scaling issues, 
some new features may well be interesting to non high end users as well. 
If it's supposed to be a high end only fs, then please don't call ext4, 
otherwise it would mislead users about what it doesn't is - a general 
purpose fs.

bye, Roman
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