Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:28:09 -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> 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 ...
Not true. Terabyte SATA drives are less than a year away. 2TB drives... probably 2 years?
Jeff
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