From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:21:59 -0400 Message-ID: <44DB4107.5050001@garzik.org> References: <1155172843.3161.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809234019.c8a730e3.akpm@osdl.org> <44DB203A.6050901@garzik.org> <44DB25C1.1020807@garzik.org> <44DB27A3.1040606@garzik.org> <44DB3151.8050904@garzik.org> <44DB34FF.4000303@garzik.org> <44DB3CED.7080802@sandeen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Eric Sandeen , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33506 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161305AbWHJOWE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:22:04 -0400 To: Roman Zippel In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> ext4 is being developed primarily to address scaling issues at the high end of >> the storage spectrum. If you're concerned about carrying 64-bit containers, >> just use ext3, and be happy with your 32-bit, < 16TB filesystems, I'd say. > > The problem being that it doesn't _exclusively_ address scaling issues, > some new features may well be interesting to non high end users as well. > If it's supposed to be a high end only fs, then please don't call ext4, > otherwise it would mislead users about what it doesn't is - a general > purpose fs. It will work just fine on 32-bit machines. You're making a mountain out of a molehill. Jeff