From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 09:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Alex Tomas , Jeff Garzik , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:3538 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030267AbWFIQKP (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:10:15 -0400 To: Gerrit Huizenga In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Gerrit Huizenga wrote: > > Jeff's approach taken to the rediculous would mean that we'd have > ext versions 1-40 by now at least. I don't think that helps much, > either. On the other hand, I _guarantee_ you that it helps that we have ext2-3, and not just ext2 (nobody even tried to keep ext1 compatible, thank the Gods). If for no other reason, than the fact that the ext3 development could be much more aggressive early on. Exactly because it did NOT screw up the old filesystem that everybody else depended on. So we have empirical evidence that splitting filesystem work up does actually help. Linus