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

H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-09T21:58:47Z

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