From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030294AbWFIQrG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:47:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030286AbWFIQrF (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:47:05 -0400 Received: from [80.71.248.82] ([80.71.248.82]:35562 "EHLO gw.home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030268AbWFIQrD (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Jun 2006 12:47:03 -0400 X-Comment-To: Jeff Garzik To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mike Snitzer , Alex Tomas , Christoph Hellwig , 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> <44898476.80401@garzik.org> <4489874C.1020108@garzik.org> <44899113.3070509@garzik.org> <170fa0d20606090921x71719ad3m7f9387ba15413b8f@mail.gmail.com> <4489A15E.5020904@garzik.org> From: Alex Tomas Organization: HOME Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 20:48:58 +0400 In-Reply-To: <4489A15E.5020904@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Fri, 09 Jun 2006 12:27:10 -0400") 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 >>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes: JG> It's also a question of... why keep adding modernizing features to JG> ext3, thus keeping it on life support, but just barely? If we are JG> going to modernize the _main Linux filesystem_, let's not do it in a JG> way that is slow, and ties our hands. I think trying to solve all problems at once will take much longer. thanks, Alex