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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09T16:03:25Z

Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> Jeff's approach taken to the rediculous would mean that we'd have
> ext versions 1-40 by now at least. I don't think that helps much,
> either.

That's plainly silly. Like everything else in life, it is a balance of
costs.

At some point, ext3's fs-feature-flag approach increases the
combinations of metadata variants you must support exponentially.

Moving to extents and 48bit (which I want) is a big enough step that,
IMO, some of the support costs become far more obvious.

Jeff