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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09T16:28:17Z

Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
>
> JG> If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default
> JG> (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever
> JG> use the feature. And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the
> JG> _main_ filesystem for Linux.
>
> strictly speaking, not that many users really need >2TB fs ...

Not true. Terabyte SATA drives are less than a year away. 2TB
drives... probably 2 years?

Jeff