Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:03:44 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: VFS 64-bit clean |
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Hi!
> > Wouldn't it be better to make an "ext3" file-system that is a 64-bit > > version of the ext2 one? That way, everybody is happy and everything > > works. > > I agree - allthough I am not contributing to kernel development, I want > to share my thoughts on the matter: > > I wouldn't waste time trying to make amazingly clever ext2fs extensions > playing with reserved/unused bits in the structures. My feeling is that > the direction should be ext3fs (based on ext2fs)
While talking about ext3. I do not think it should be ext2 based. I do not like linear searching for files ext2 does. (I made directory with ~3000 files and it go slooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwww, much too slow.)
And - we need files >4G on ext2 *now*. Mj's smugfs is solution for us, but other people probably would not like it, and it is _hack_.
Pavel -- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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