From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030203AbWFIQyX (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:54:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965299AbWFIQyX (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:54:23 -0400 Received: from cernmx05.cern.ch ([137.138.166.161]:43669 "EHLO cernmxlb.cern.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965297AbWFIQyV (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:54:21 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; s=beta; d=cern.ch; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=RSuaLlo3KVCFI+k0ESL/YXbyO2xgkfyQzBsMjPuVaPYWoC9Fm4ei3ZfmHz6yseOVu962SwaJq/bc91X38gBC/EyrTUtbUm/YHxIUb71yM0qW5FX/tIDGarcLm7Ns1Y3b; Keywords: CERN SpamKiller Note: -52 Charset: west-latin X-Filter: CERNMX05 CERN MX v2.0 051012.1312 Release Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 18:54:18 +0200 From: KELEMEN Peter To: Alex Tomas Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Message-ID: <20060609165418.GF30631@chihiro.cern.ch> Mail-Followup-To: Alex Tomas , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <4488E1A4.20305@garzik.org> <20060609083523.GQ5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <44898EE3.6080903@garzik.org> <448992EB.5070405@garzik.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Switzerland X-GPG-KeyID: 1024D/9FF0CABE 2004-04-03 X-GPG-Fingerprint: 6C9E 5917 3B06 E4EE 6356 7BF0 8F3E CAB6 9FF0 CABE X-Comment: Personal opinion. Paragraphs might have been reformatted. X-Copyright: Forwarding or publishing without permission is prohibited. X-Accept-Language: hu,en User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Jun 2006 16:54:19.0088 (UTC) FILETIME=[596F5D00:01C68BE5] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Alex Tomas (alex@clusterfs.com) [20060609 20:48]: > I think about extents as a step-by-step way ... ...so call it ext4 *now* and have a complete rewrite of the whole codebase as ext5. Users get what they want now (ext4) and Linus gets what he wants later (ext5). Extents are useful for Joe Average User with <2 TB filesystems as well. It's already funny enough that I'm using e2* tools for managing ext3 filesystems... Peter -- .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'''+. .+'' Kelemen Péter / \ / \ Peter.Kelemen@cern.ch .+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' `+...+' From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: KELEMEN Peter Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 18:54:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20060609165418.GF30631@chihiro.cern.ch> References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <4488E1A4.20305@garzik.org> <20060609083523.GQ5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <44898EE3.6080903@garzik.org> <448992EB.5070405@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Cc: Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger Return-path: To: Alex Tomas Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org KiBBbGV4IFRvbWFzIChhbGV4QGNsdXN0ZXJmcy5jb20pIFsyMDA2MDYwOSAyMDo0OF06Cgo+IEkg dGhpbmsgYWJvdXQgZXh0ZW50cyBhcyBhIHN0ZXAtYnktc3RlcCB3YXkgLi4uCgouLi5zbyBjYWxs IGl0IGV4dDQgKm5vdyogYW5kIGhhdmUgYSBjb21wbGV0ZSByZXdyaXRlIG9mIHRoZSB3aG9sZQpj b2RlYmFzZSBhcyBleHQ1LiAgVXNlcnMgZ2V0IHdoYXQgdGhleSB3YW50IG5vdyAoZXh0NCkgYW5k IExpbnVzCmdldHMgd2hhdCBoZSB3YW50cyBsYXRlciAoZXh0NSkuICBFeHRlbnRzIGFyZSB1c2Vm dWwgZm9yIEpvZQpBdmVyYWdlIFVzZXIgd2l0aCA8MiBUQiBmaWxlc3lzdGVtcyBhcyB3ZWxsLgoK SXQncyBhbHJlYWR5IGZ1bm55IGVub3VnaCB0aGF0IEknbSB1c2luZyBlMiogdG9vbHMgZm9yIG1h bmFnaW5nCmV4dDMgZmlsZXN5c3RlbXMuLi4KClBldGVyCgotLSAKICAgIC4rJycnKy4gICAgICAg ICAuKycnJysuICAgICAgICAgLisnJycrLiAgICAgICAgIC4rJycnKy4gICAgICAgICAuKycnCiBL ZWxlbWVuIFDDqXRlciAgICAgLyAgICAgICBcICAgICAgIC8gICAgICAgXCAgICAgUGV0ZXIuS2Vs ZW1lbkBjZXJuLmNoCi4rJyAgICAgICAgIGArLi4uKycgICAgICAgICBgKy4uLisnICAgICAgICAg YCsuLi4rJyAgICAgICAgIGArLi4uKycKCgpfX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19fX19f X19fX19fX19fX19fX19fXwpFeHQyLWRldmVsIG1haWxpbmcgbGlzdApFeHQyLWRldmVsQGxpc3Rz LnNvdXJjZWZvcmdlLm5ldApodHRwczovL2xpc3RzLnNvdXJjZWZvcmdlLm5ldC9saXN0cy9saXN0 aW5mby9leHQyLWRldmVsCg==