On 22 October 2014 04:08, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > Since the kernel has code for both "fat" metadata and skinny-metadata, > they can exist side-by-side and the kernel will use whichever code is > appropriate.
I understand that the fat extent code will probably never be removed for compatibility reasons, but do wonder why it's still the default. Caution? Petr Janecek's balancing problem [1] and similar bugs aside: is there a functional reason to prefer "fat" over skinny metadata for future file systems? Regards, T G-R [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg38443.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
