Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 | From | Alex Tomas <> | Date | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 22:10:36 +0400 |
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>>>>> Matthew Frost (MF) writes:
MF> Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> Think about how this will be deployed in production, long term. JG> If extents are not made default at some point, then no one will >> use JG> the feature, and it should not be merged. >> sorry, I disagree. for example, NUMA isn't default and shouldn't be. >> but we have it in the tree and any one may choose to use it.
MF> NUMA is designed to cope with a hardware feature, which not everybody MF> has. Filesystem upgrades are not qualitatively similar; it does not MF> depend on one's hardware design as to whether one uses ext3, let alone MF> extents. Your logic is faulty.
proposed 48bit extents patch addresses 2TB limit.
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