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

H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-09T21:43:48Z

Followup to: <4489EAFE.6090303@garzik.org>
By author: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > And I'd also dispute with your "weren't really suited for the original
> > ext2-style design" comment. Ext2/3 was always designed to be
> > extensible from the start, and we've successfully added features quite
> > successfully for quite a while.
>
> Although not the only disk format change, extents are a pretty big one.
> Will this be the last major on-disk format change?
>

"Last" is a pretty strong word. Will extents be combined with 64-bit
block numbers? That's becoming increasingly urgent.

-hpa