From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965236AbWFILYb (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:24:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965234AbWFILYb (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:24:31 -0400 Received: from [80.71.248.82] ([80.71.248.82]:13543 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965233AbWFILYa (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 07:24:30 -0400 X-Comment-To: Christoph Hellwig To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Mingming Cao , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 References: <1149816055.4066.60.camel@dyn9047017069.beaverton.ibm.com> <20060609091327.GA3679@infradead.org> From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:26:26 +0400 In-Reply-To: <20060609091327.GA3679@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:13:27 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> Christoph Hellwig (CH) writes: CH> If you guys want big storage on linux please help improving the filesystems CH> design for that, e.g. jfs or xfs instead of showhorning it onto ext3 thus CH> both making ext3 less reliable for us desktop/small server users and not get CH> the full thing for the big storage people either. proposed patches don't touch existing code paths. extents may be enabled/disabled on per-file basis. thanks, Alex