Re: [Ext2-devel] [PATCH 2/9] sector_t format string

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>
> > ext4 is being developed primarily to address scaling issues at the high end of
> > the storage spectrum.  If you're concerned about carrying 64-bit containers,
> > just use ext3, and be happy with your 32-bit, < 16TB filesystems, I'd say.
>
> The problem being that it doesn't _exclusively_ address scaling issues, 
> some new features may well be interesting to non high end users as well. 
> If it's supposed to be a high end only fs, then please don't call ext4, 
> otherwise it would mislead users about what it doesn't is - a general 
> purpose fs.

It will work just fine on 32-bit machines.

You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

	Jeff



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