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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>,
	"linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Btrfs: add a incompatible format change for smaller metadata extent refs
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 14:19:42 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130308031942.GC23616@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130307212918.GB1905@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 04:29:18PM -0500, Josef Bacik wrote:
> The searches do different things in different places so we have to have samey
> blobs like this until we get everybody on skinny metadata and can delete the old
> code.  Thanks,

History says that once you have a disk format out in the wild, there
will still be people using it 10 years later. IOWs, you'll probably
never be able to delete the old code....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-08  3:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-07 19:27 [PATCH] Btrfs: add a incompatible format change for smaller metadata extent refs Josef Bacik
2013-03-07 19:50 ` Zach Brown
2013-03-07 21:29   ` Josef Bacik
2013-03-08  3:19     ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2013-03-07 23:11 ` David Sterba
2013-03-08  3:16 ` Liu Bo

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