Alex Tomas wrote:
Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
JG> 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 ...
JG> Not true. Terabyte SATA drives are less than a year away. 2TB
JG> drives... probably 2 years?
oh, 2 years sound long enough for defaulting extents?
If terabyte drives will be here in less than a year, and 750GB drives
are already here, then people with today's commodity hardware are
probably already chomping at the bit to do >2TB LVM and RAID.
Hook eight 750GB SATA drives to a Marvell SATA controller (all
commodity, all production) and you're way past 2TB.
Jeff
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