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

Alex Tomas
2006-06-09T16:48:05Z

>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

JG> 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 ...

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

oh, 2 years sound long enough for defaulting extents?

thanks, Alex