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Message-ID: <4DEF8A1D.2080707@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 09:41:33 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> To: "Amir G." <amir73il@...rs.sourceforge.net> CC: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@...hat.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, tytso@....edu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/30] Ext4 snapshots On 6/8/11 9:04 AM, Amir G. wrote: >> And one last note, I also think that the snapshot format change in the >> > future, when we'll have snpashots with 64bit feature compatible seems >> > just wrong to me. Adding some features or changing the implementation a >> > bit is ok, but format change is different. When the code is upstream and >> > stable it is just wrong. > What can I say, I understand why it looks bad, but is 64bit code > upstream and stable? Hell no! e2fsprogs 64bit is not out yet! > There is no reason to call it 'format change'. > It's going to be a new format used only for 64bit fs, which are not > even out there yet. And when they are finally out there, they won't > have > snapshots until the new format is implemented. Well, the on-disk format for 64-bit (48-bit?) ext4 is there & fixed; it's just that there is no released userspace which can properly handle it, right? I don't anticipate ext4 format changes for >16T, or am I missing something? -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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