From: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:52:34 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608101547261.6761@scrub.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44DB34FF.4000303@garzik.org>
Hi,
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Roman Zippel wrote:
> > If you force everyone to use 64bit sector numbers, I don't understand how
> > you can claim "still working just fine on 32bit"?
>
> 64bit sector numbers work just fine on 32-bit machines.
Depends on the definition of "fine".
> > At some point ext4 is probably going to be the de facto standard, which very
> > many people want to use, because it has all the new features, which won't be
> > ported to ext2/3. So I still don't understand, what's so wrong about a
> > little tuning in both directions?
>
> Just seems like wasted effort to me.
I disagree.
Many developer still brag about how Linux runs on about everything, but
it's little steps like this, which make it more and more a joke.
bye, Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-10 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-10 1:20 [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string Mingming Cao
2006-08-10 6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 11:05 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 12:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 12:30 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 12:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 13:08 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 13:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 13:27 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 13:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 13:52 ` Roman Zippel [this message]
2006-08-10 14:04 ` [Ext2-devel] " Eric Sandeen
2006-08-10 14:19 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 14:35 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 14:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 14:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10 14:41 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 16:24 ` John Stoffel
2006-08-10 16:43 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 16:54 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 17:24 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 15:31 ` [Ext2-devel] " Theodore Tso
2006-08-10 16:37 ` Roman Zippel
2006-08-10 21:59 ` [Ext2-devel] " Mingming Cao
2006-08-10 19:17 ` Joel Becker
2006-08-10 19:44 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-10 19:57 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-10 20:41 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-10 20:17 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-11 5:57 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-11 8:31 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-11 9:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-11 14:48 ` Jeff Mahoney
2006-08-11 0:59 ` Mingming Cao
2006-08-11 2:11 ` Eric Sandeen
2006-08-11 22:06 ` Mingming Cao
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