From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030292AbWFIQ2R (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:28:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030297AbWFIQ2Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:28:16 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:19599 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030260AbWFIQ2O (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:28:14 -0400 Message-ID: <4489A199.9050502@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:28:09 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Tomas CC: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , 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 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> <44899D93.5030008@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.2 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: > > JG> If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default > JG> (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever > JG> use the feature. And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the > JG> _main_ filesystem for Linux. > > strictly speaking, not that many users really need >2TB fs ... Not true. Terabyte SATA drives are less than a year away. 2TB drives... probably 2 years? Jeff From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:28:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4489A199.9050502@garzik.org> 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> <44899D93.5030008@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , 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 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 Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: > > JG> If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default > JG> (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever > JG> use the feature. And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the > JG> _main_ filesystem for Linux. > > strictly speaking, not that many users really need >2TB fs ... Not true. Terabyte SATA drives are less than a year away. 2TB drives... probably 2 years? Jeff