From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030259AbWFIQEp (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:04:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030252AbWFIQEp (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:04:45 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:22414 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030251AbWFIQEn (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:04:43 -0400 Message-ID: <44899C17.4080808@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:04:39 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Tomas CC: Andreas Dilger , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <4488E1A4.20305@garzik.org> <20060609083523.GQ5964@schatzie.adilger.int> <44898EE3.6080903@garzik.org> <44899778.1010705@garzik.org> <4489993D.7070203@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.2 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.1 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.2 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: > > JG> Alex Tomas wrote: > >> at the moment there is no way to "boot w/ extents". you must enable > >> them by mount option. > > JG> Think about how distros will deploy this feature. Also, think about > JG> how scalable that line of thinking is... > > I may be wrong, but I tend to think if they're stupid enough to enable > experimental mount option by default, they can do s/ext3/ext4 as well. At some point in the future, it will not be experimental. Jeff