This was in response to XFS developer Dave Chinner's complaint that: "ext4 is supposed to be primarily the Linux desktop filesystem, yet all I see is people tr

This was in response to XFS developer Dave Chinner's complaint that: "ext4 is supposed to be primarily the Linux desktop filesystem, yet all I see is people trying to make it something for big, bigger and biggest. Bigalloc, new extent formats, no-journal mode, dioread_nolock, COW snapshots, secure delete, etc. It's a list of features that are omewhat incompatible with each other that are useful to only a handful of vendors or companies. Most have no relevance at all to the uses of the majority of ext4 users." and "do ext4 users really need a new, incompatible, difficult to test on-disk formats to solve problems that most people will never hit on their desktop and server systems before they migrate them to BTRFS?" http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/30508 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.ext4/30508