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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09T15:57:41Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Quite frankly, at this point, there's no way in hell I believe we can do
> major surgery on ext3. It's the main filesystem for a lot of users, and
> it's just not worth the instability worries unless it's something very
> obviously transparent.
>
> I wouldn't mind an ext4 (that hopefully drops some of the features of
> ext3, and might not downgrade to ext2 on errors, for example).

Certainly agreed, for all of this :)

I think that the lack of ext4 means people keep trying to stuff the
wrong things into ext3.

Jeff