Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
Jeff's approach taken to the rediculous would mean that we'd have ext versions 1-40 by now at least. I don't think that helps much, either.
That's plainly silly. Like everything else in life, it is a balance of costs.
At some point, ext3's fs-feature-flag approach increases the combinations of metadata variants you must support exponentially.
Moving to extents and 48bit (which I want) is a big enough step that, IMO, some of the support costs become far more obvious.
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