From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 14:51:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20060610135122.GA9039@infradead.org> References: <20060609091327.GA3679@infradead.org> <20060609030759.48cd17a0.akpm@osdl.org> <44899653.1020007@garzik.org> <20060609095620.22326f9d.akpm@osdl.org> <4489AAD9.80806@garzik.org> <20060609103543.52c00c62.akpm@osdl.org> <4489B452.4050100@garzik.org> <4489B719.2070707@garzik.org> <170fa0d20606091127h735531d1s6df27d5721a54b80@mail.gmail.com> <20060610134946.GC11634@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Mike Snitzer , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , hch@infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:15239 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030388AbWFJNv5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jun 2006 09:51:57 -0400 To: Adrian Bunk Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060610134946.GC11634@stusta.de> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 03:49:46PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > And no real-world near-term progress is made for production users with > > modern requirements. What you're advocating breeds instability in the > > near-term. > > There's also the old-fashioned "no regressions" requirement. > > You are trading near-term instability for the few users with "modern > requirements" against possible regressions for a large userbase. Alex mentioned a few times that the extents code just adds three if. I'm pretty sure that will not give you any regressions in the existing codebase. Can we concentrate on the more useful discussion topics now?