>>>>> Matthew Frost (MF) writes: MF> Alex Tomas wrote: >>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> Think about how this will be deployed in production, long term. JG> If extents are not made default at some point, then no one will >> use JG> the feature, and it should not be merged. >> sorry, I disagree. for example, NUMA isn't default and shouldn't be. >> but we have it in the tree and any one may choose to use it. MF> NUMA is designed to cope with a hardware feature, which not everybody MF> has. Filesystem upgrades are not qualitatively similar; it does not MF> depend on one's hardware design as to whether one uses ext3, let alone MF> extents. Your logic is faulty. proposed 48bit extents patch addresses 2TB limit. thanks, Alex - 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
