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 19:15:27 -0400 Message-ID: <448A010F.9060701@garzik.org> References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <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> <20060609214200.GA18213@kevlar.burdell.org> <20060609151553.30097b44.akpm@osdl.org> <20060609231151.GL5964@schatzie.adilger.int> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:169 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932582AbWFIXPi (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 19:15:38 -0400 To: Andrew Morton , Sonny Rao , jeff@garzik.org, hch@infradead.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20060609231151.GL5964@schatzie.adilger.int> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Andreas Dilger wrote: > I'm not so strongly against ext4 that I won't follow that route if needed, > but it essentially means that ext3 will be orphaned. Not orphaned but scaled back over time. IMO there's only so much developer and brain and test bandwidth for "the main Linux filesystem." Jeff