From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030526AbWFIVns (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:43:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030527AbWFIVns (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:43:48 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:59095 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030526AbWFIVnr (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 17:43:47 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 14:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Mostly alphabetical, except Q, with we do not fancy Message-ID: References: <4489D36C.3010000@garzik.org> <20060609203523.GE10524@thunk.org> <4489EAFE.6090303@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1149889403 16147 127.0.0.1 (9 Jun 2006 21:43:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 21:43:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <4489EAFE.6090303@garzik.org> By author: Jeff Garzik 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