Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:53:11 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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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
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