From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roman Zippel Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:19:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: 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=US-ASCII Cc: Jeff Garzik , 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 scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:43407 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161243AbWHJOUM (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:20:12 -0400 To: Eric Sandeen In-Reply-To: <44DB3CED.7080802@sandeen.net> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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. bye, Roman