From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:11:23 -0700 Message-ID: <20060609211123.GI3574@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> References: <1149880865.22124.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4489CB42.6020709@garzik.org> <20060609204418.GG3574@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chase Venters , Linus Torvalds , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger , Alan Cox Return-path: To: Alex Tomas Content-Disposition: inline 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 On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:49:54AM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote: > >>>>> Joel Becker (JB) writes: > JB> Which is irrelevant. If you tell the world "extents are > JB> better!", they're going to turn them on regardless of whether you > JB> consider their situation a good candidate. Many non-kernel-hackers > JB> started using reiserfs before it was usably stable, just because > JB> "journaling is better!" > > I haven't said that so far. I feel absolutely comfortable to put > as many warnings as needed from your point of view. When I say "you", I mean the general consensus. You can scream "don't do this" as loud as you want, the world might drown you out. Not every random person that sees "new extents in ext3" is going to know that Alex is the authority. They certainly aren't going to read the documentation. They'll read some comment on some website that says "all you need is '-o extents'!" Joel -- "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." - Gore Vidal Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127