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

[Jeff Garzik]

Alex Tomas wrote:
> > > > > > Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
>
>  JG> If it will remain a mount option, if it is never made the default
>  JG> (either in kernel or distro level), then only 1% of users will ever
>  JG> use the feature.  And we shouldn't merge a 1% use feature into the
>  JG> _main_ filesystem for Linux.
>
> strictly speaking, not that many users really need >2TB fs ...

Not true.  Terabyte SATA drives are less than a year away.  2TB 
drives... probably 2 years?

	Jeff



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