Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

[Jeff Garzik]

Alex Tomas wrote:
> > > > > > 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.

And thus, inodes are progressively incompatible with older kernels. 
Boot into an older kernel, and you can now only read half your 
filesystem (if it even allows mount at all).

	Jeff



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