Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 17:41:18 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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Theodore Tso wrote: > And I'd also dispute with your "weren't really suited for the original > ext2-style design" comment. Ext2/3 was always designed to be > extensible from the start, and we've successfully added features quite > successfully for quite a while.
Although not the only disk format change, extents are a pretty big one. Will this be the last major on-disk format change?
>> Rather than taking another decade to slowly fix ext2 design decisions, >> why not move the process along a bit more rapidly? Release early, >> release often... > > I don't think it will be another decade, but yes, regardless of > whether we do a code fork or not, it will take time. Basically, you > and the ext2 developers have a disagreement about whether or not a > code fork will actually move the process along more quickly or not. > Either way, we will be releasing early and often, so people can test > it out and comment on it. Releasing patches to LKML is just the first > step in this process.
I don't see how a larger filesystem codebase could possibly move more quickly than a smaller codebase. You'd have twice as many code paths to worry about.
Jeff
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