From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Tomas Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:50:07 +0400 Message-ID: References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <4488E1A4.20305@garzik.org> <20060609083523.GQ5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <44898EE3.6080903@garzik.org> <448992EB.5070405@garzik.org> <44899D93.5030008@garzik.org> <4489A199.9050502@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alex Tomas , Andreas Dilger Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <4489A199.9050502@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:28:09 -0400") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: ext2-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org >>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the >> default JG> (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever JG> use the feature. And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the JG> _main_ filesystem for Linux. >> strictly speaking, not that many users really need >2TB fs ... JG> Not true. Terabyte SATA drives are less than a year away. 2TB JG> drives... probably 2 years? oh, 2 years sound long enough for defaulting extents? thanks, Alex