Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

Jeff Garzik
2006-08-10T14:22:06Z

Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
>> ext4 is being developed primarily to address scaling issues at the high end of
>> the storage spectrum. If you're concerned about carrying 64-bit containers,
>> just use ext3, and be happy with your 32-bit, < 16TB filesystems, I'd say.
>
> The problem being that it doesn't _exclusively_ address scaling issues,
> some new features may well be interesting to non high end users as well.
> If it's supposed to be a high end only fs, then please don't call ext4,
> otherwise it would mislead users about what it doesn't is - a general
> purpose fs.

It will work just fine on 32-bit machines.

You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

Jeff