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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09T22:00:07Z

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