From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030340AbWFISEG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:04:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030343AbWFISEF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:04:05 -0400 Received: from smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.211]:596 "HELO smtp112.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030278AbWFISED (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:04:03 -0400 Message-ID: <4489B83E.9090104@sbcglobal.net> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 13:04:46 -0500 From: Matthew Frost Reply-To: artusemrys@sbcglobal.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Tomas CC: Jeff Garzik , 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> <448997FA.50109@garzik.org> <44899A1C.7000207@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: > > JG> Think about how this will be deployed in production, long term. > > JG> If extents are not made default at some point, then no one will use > JG> the feature, and it should not be merged. > > sorry, I disagree. for example, NUMA isn't default and shouldn't be. > but we have it in the tree and any one may choose to use it. NUMA is designed to cope with a hardware feature, which not everybody has. Filesystem upgrades are not qualitatively similar; it does not depend on one's hardware design as to whether one uses ext3, let alone extents. Your logic is faulty. the same > with extents. let's have it in. but let's make clear it's experimental, > it makes sense for large files only, it isn't backward compatible and > so on. > > thanks, Alex > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >