Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161305AbWHJOWG (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:22:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161309AbWHJOWF (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:22:05 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:33506 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161305AbWHJOWE (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:22:04 -0400 Message-ID: <44DB4107.5050001@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:21:59 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roman Zippel CC: Eric Sandeen , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string References: <1155172843.3161.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060809234019.c8a730e3.akpm@osdl.org> <44DB203A.6050901@garzik.org> <44DB25C1.1020807@garzik.org> <44DB27A3.1040606@garzik.org> <44DB3151.8050904@garzik.org> <44DB34FF.4000303@garzik.org> <44DB3CED.7080802@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 974 Lines: 28 Roman Zippel wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> ext4 is being developed primarily to address scaling issues at the high end of >> the storage spectrum. If you're concerned about carrying 64-bit containers, >> just use ext3, and be happy with your 32-bit, < 16TB filesystems, I'd say. > > The problem being that it doesn't _exclusively_ address scaling issues, > some new features may well be interesting to non high end users as well. > If it's supposed to be a high end only fs, then please don't call ext4, > otherwise it would mislead users about what it doesn't is - a general > purpose fs. It will work just fine on 32-bit machines. You're making a mountain out of a molehill. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/