From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:51:07 -0400 Message-ID: <4489A6FB.9010402@garzik.org> References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060609091327.GA3679@infradead.org> <44898476.80401@garzik.org> <4489874C.1020108@garzik.org> <44899113.3070509@garzik.org> <170fa0d20606090921x71719ad3m7f9387ba15413b8f@mail.gmail.com> <4489A15E.5020904@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Mingming Cao , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Alex Tomas 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 Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: > > JG> It's also a question of... why keep adding modernizing features to > JG> ext3, thus keeping it on life support, but just barely? If we are > JG> going to modernize the _main Linux filesystem_, let's not do it in a > JG> way that is slow, and ties our hands. > > I think trying to solve all problems at once will take much longer. I guess it's a good thing that real world development never works like that. Jeff