that's why we're trying to get it in *now*. because we need it. and nobody AFAIK insists to make extents default or such. thanks, Alex >>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> If terabyte drives will be here in less than a year, and 750GB drives JG> are already here, then people with today's commodity hardware are JG> probably already chomping at the bit to do >2TB LVM and RAID. JG> Hook eight 750GB SATA drives to a Marvell SATA controller (all JG> commodity, all production) and you're way past 2TB. JG> Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html