Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
> 
>  JG> 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 ...
> 
>  JG> Not true.  Terabyte SATA drives are less than a year away.  2TB
>  JG> drives... probably 2 years?
> 
> oh, 2 years sound long enough for defaulting extents?

If terabyte drives will be here in less than a year, and 750GB drives 
are already here, then people with today's commodity hardware are 
probably already chomping at the bit to do >2TB LVM and RAID.

Hook eight 750GB SATA drives to a Marvell SATA controller (all 
commodity, all production) and you're way past 2TB.

	Jeff