Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:00:03 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3 |
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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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