Re: [PATCH] concurrent block allocation for ext2 against 2.5.64

[Martin J. Bligh]

> First of all, thanks for this work, Alex.  It's been a long time in coming.
> 
> One thing I would wonder about is whether we should be implementing this in
> ext2, or in ext3 only.  One of the decisions we made in the past is that we
> shouldn't necessarily implement everything in ext2 (especially features that
> complicated the code, and are only useful on high-end systems).
> 
> There was a desire to keep ext2 small and simple, and ext3 would get the
> fancy high-end features that make sense if you have a large filesystem
> that you would likely be using in conjunction with ext3 anyways.

Errrm ... if you want to start advocating that sort of thing, I suggest 
you make ext3 usable on high end systems first. At the moment, that makes 
no sense whatsoever. Ext3 still doesn't scale to big systems.

M.