Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:58:25 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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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. You can easily have a single filesystem module register two different filesystem names.
-hpa
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