Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

Matthew Wilcox
2006-06-09T15:31:18Z

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 07:28:22PM +0400, Alex Tomas wrote:
> JG> "ext3" will become more and more meaningless. It could mean _any_ of
> JG> several filesystem metadata variants, and the admin will have no clue
> JG> which variant they are talking to until they try to mount the blkdev
> JG> (and possibly fail the mount).
>
> debugfs <dev> -R stats | grep features ?

... a simple and intuitive command which just trips off the tongue.

I want extents, but I'm still unconvinced that ext3 needs to grow beyond
32-bit blocks. The scheme posted by Val and Arjan (with the
continuation inodes) seems much neater.