Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

[Jeff Garzik]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Right, and that proves my point.  When you start making major changes 
> > like 32->64 bit block numbers, you should communicate to the user 
> > (with a big blinky "ext4" sign) that his filesystem metadata will 
> > change a lot, not a little.  Not to mention that such code will add 
> > yet more "if (new) .. else .." code.
>
> Forking the code and registering another filesystem name are two 
> separate things, though.

Certainly.  Hopefully one would follow the other, for maximum benefit.

	Jeff




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