Re: VFS 64-bit clean

Pavel Machek (pavel@elf.ucw.cz)
Sun, 22 Feb 1998 12:03:44 +0100


Hi!

> > Wouldn't it be better to make an "ext3" file-system that is a 64-bit
> > version of the ext2 one? That way, everybody is happy and everything
> > works.
>
> I agree - allthough I am not contributing to kernel development, I want
> to share my thoughts on the matter:
>
> I wouldn't waste time trying to make amazingly clever ext2fs extensions
> playing with reserved/unused bits in the structures. My feeling is that
> the direction should be ext3fs (based on ext2fs)

While talking about ext3. I do not think it should be ext2 based. I do
not like linear searching for files ext2 does. (I made directory with
~3000 files and it go slooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwww, much too slow.)

And - we need files >4G on ext2 *now*. Mj's smugfs is solution for us,
but other people probably would not like it, and it is _hack_.

Pavel

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