From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030304AbWFIQ74 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:59:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030248AbWFIQ7z (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:59:55 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:34225 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030209AbWFIQ7y (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:59:54 -0400 Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 From: Alan Cox To: Jeff Garzik Cc: cmm@us.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4488E1A4.20305@garzik.org> References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <4488E1A4.20305@garzik.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:14:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1149873294.22124.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 (2.6.1-1.fc5.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Iau, 2006-06-08 am 22:49 -0400, ysgrifennodd Jeff Garzik: > People (including me) still switch back and forth between ext2 and ext3 > mounts of the same filesystem on occasion. I think creating an "ext4" > would allow for greater developer flexibility in implementing new > features and ditching old ones -- while also emphasizing to the user > that switching back and forth between ext4 and ext[23] is a bad idea. I would agree with this, particularly as ext3 and ext4 are quite small in the kernel side of things and people needing 48bit extents are probably not trying to run on 8MB of flash. Alan