From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030465AbWFITp0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:45:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030462AbWFITp0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:45:26 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33694 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030461AbWFITpZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:45:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4489CFCC.40209@garzik.org> Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:45:16 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerrit Huizenga CC: Matthew Frost , Alex Tomas , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , ext2-devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 References: 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 Gerrit Huizenga wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:51:55 EDT, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> PRECISELY. So you should stop modifying a filesystem whose design is >> admittedly _not_ modern! > > So just how long do you think it would take to get a modern filesystem > into the hands of real users, supported by the distros? From community > building, through design, development, testing, delivery? Start from a known working point, and keep it working... Jeff