From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:50:36 -0400 Message-ID: <20060609205036.GI7420@redhat.com> References: <20060609083523.GQ5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <44898EE3.6080903@garzik.org> <448992EB.5070405@garzik.org> <4489A7ED.8070007@garzik.org> <20060609195750.GD10524@thunk.org> <20060609203803.GF3574@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: To: Theodore Tso , Jeff Garzik , Alex Tomas , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060609203803.GF3574@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> 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 On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 01:38:03PM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: > that the older code cannot read. Alex claims people just shouldn't use > "-o extents", but the fact is their distro will choose it for them. .. on partitions over a certain size, which couldn't be read with older ext3 filesystems _anyway_ Enabling it by default on partitions of a size less than those that need extents seems to be somewhat pointless to me? Am I missing something fundamental that precludes the use of both extent-based and current existing filesystems from the same code simultaneously ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk