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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <4489EAFE.6090303@xxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Theodore Tso wrote:
> > And I'd also dispute with your "weren't really suited for the original
> > ext2-style design" comment.  Ext2/3 was always designed to be
> > extensible from the start, and we've successfully added features quite
> > successfully for quite a while.
> 
> Although not the only disk format change, extents are a pretty big one. 
> Will this be the last major on-disk format change?
> 

"Last" is a pretty strong word.  Will extents be combined with 64-bit
block numbers?  That's becoming increasingly urgent.

	-hpa

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