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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09T16:53:17Z

Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> 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?

If terabyte drives will be here in less than a year, and 750GB drives
are already here, then people with today's commodity hardware are
probably already chomping at the bit to do >2TB LVM and RAID.

Hook eight 750GB SATA drives to a Marvell SATA controller (all
commodity, all production) and you're way past 2TB.

Jeff