Messages in this thread | | | From | "Jeff Anderson-Lee" <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 | Date | Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:12:39 -0700 |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Alex Tomas wrote: > > > I believe it's as stable as before until you mount with extents > > mount option. > > In contrast, the last time two different filesystems introduced bugs in > each other was approximately "never". They simply don't modify each others
> code, they don't look at each others data structures, and they don't jump > into each others routines.
As an interested bystander (and large filesystem user), I'd say I tend to agree with Linus and Jeff on this one.
* ext3 is arguably the main Linux filesystem: too important to keep "experimenting" with.
* I'd encourage a >2TB version, but call it ext4. It makes it clear that you are entering new territory.
* Take advantage of the switch to remove some of the backward compatibility cruft from the ext4 version -- make it a clean, explicit break.
* [Possibly even inoculate ext3 against creeping featuris and work on cleanup and optimization instead.]
This is not intended to slight the work/position of the ext3 developers, merely to inform them of an end-user's perspective.
---- Jeff Anderson-Lee Petabyte Storage Infrastructure Project University of California Berkeley "Simplify, simplify, simplify." -- Henry David Thoreau "I think one 'simplify' would have sufficed." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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