From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Tomas Subject: Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 00:49:54 +0400 Message-ID: References: <20060609181020.GB5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <1149880865.22124.70.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4489CB42.6020709@garzik.org> <20060609204418.GG3574@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chase Venters , Linus Torvalds , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger , Alan Cox Return-path: To: Alex Tomas In-Reply-To: <20060609204418.GG3574@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (Joel Becker's message of "Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:44:18 -0700") 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 >>>>> Joel Becker (JB) writes: JB> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:35:43PM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote: >> that's your point of view. mine is that this option (and code) >> to be used only when needed. JB> Which is irrelevant. If you tell the world "extents are JB> better!", they're going to turn them on regardless of whether you JB> consider their situation a good candidate. Many non-kernel-hackers JB> started using reiserfs before it was usably stable, just because JB> "journaling is better!" I haven't said that so far. I feel absolutely comfortable to put as many warnings as needed from your point of view. thanks, Alex