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

Roman Zippel
2006-08-10T14:20:14Z

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.

bye, Roman