From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030250AbWFIQIY (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:08:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030261AbWFIQIY (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:08:24 -0400 Received: from [80.71.248.82] ([80.71.248.82]:14757 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030250AbWFIQIX (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:08:23 -0400 X-Comment-To: Linus Torvalds To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Jeff Garzik , 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> From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:10:08 +0400 In-Reply-To: (Linus Torvalds's message of "Fri, 9 Jun 2006 08:40:14 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> Linus Torvalds (LT) writes: LT> Quite frankly, at this point, there's no way in hell I believe we can do LT> major surgery on ext3. It's the main filesystem for a lot of users, and LT> it's just not worth the instability worries unless it's something very LT> obviously transparent. I believe it's as stable as before until you mount with extents mount option. thanks, Alex