Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:15:53 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:35:43AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > <snip> > > All that being said, Linux's filesystems are looking increasingly crufty > > and we are getting to the time where we would benefit from a greenfield > > start-a-new-one. > > I'm curious about this comment; in what way are they _collectively_ > looking crufty ?
We seem to be lagging behind "the industry" in some areas - handling large devices, high bandwidth IO, sophisticated on-disk data structures, advanced manageability, etc.
I mean, although ZFS is a rampant layering violation and we can do a lot of the things in there (without doing it all in the fs!) I don't think we can do all of it.
We're continuing to nurse along a few basically-15-year-old filesystems while we do have the brains, manpower and processes to implement a new, really great one.
It's just this feeling I have ;) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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