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

Alex Tomas
2006-06-09T11:24:31Z

>>>>> Christoph Hellwig (CH) writes:

CH> If you guys want big storage on linux please help improving the filesystems
CH> design for that, e.g. jfs or xfs instead of showhorning it onto ext3 thus
CH> both making ext3 less reliable for us desktop/small server users and not get
CH> the full thing for the big storage people either.

proposed patches don't touch existing code paths.
extents may be enabled/disabled on per-file basis.

thanks, Alex