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

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> 
> When is the Linux syscall interface enough?  When should we just bump it
> and cut out all the compatibility interfaces?
> 
> No, we don't; we let people configure certain obsolete bits out (a.out
> support etc), but we keep it in the tree despite the indirection cost to
> maintain multiple interfaces etc.

Right. WE ADD NEW SYSTEM CALLS. WE DO NOT EXTEND THE OLD ONES IN WAYS THAT 
MIGHT BREAK OLD USERS.

Your point was exactly what?

Btw, where did that 2TB limit number come from? Afaik, it should be 16TB 
for a 4kB filesystem, no?

		Linus
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