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From: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 21:01:49 +0400
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that's why we're trying to get it in *now*. because we need it.
and nobody AFAIK insists to make extents default or such.

thanks, Alex

>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 JG> If terabyte drives will be here in less than a year, and 750GB drives
 JG> are already here, then people with today's commodity hardware are
 JG> probably already chomping at the bit to do >2TB LVM and RAID.

 JG> Hook eight 750GB SATA drives to a Marvell SATA controller (all
 JG> commodity, all production) and you're way past 2TB.

 JG> 	Jeff