From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030269AbWFIQLH (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:11:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030273AbWFIQLG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:11:06 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:49806 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030269AbWFIQLF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:11:05 -0400 Message-ID: <44899D93.5030008@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:10:59 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Tomas CC: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andreas Dilger 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> <448992EB.5070405@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: >>>>>> Linus Torvalds (LT) writes: > > > LT> Quite frankly, at this point, there's no way in hell I believe we can do > LT> major surgery on ext3. It's the main filesystem for a lot of users, and > LT> it's just not worth the instability worries unless it's something very > LT> obviously transparent. > > I believe it's as stable as before until you mount with extents > mount option. If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever use the feature. And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the _main_ filesystem for Linux. Jeff