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

Alex Tomas
2006-06-09T17:58:46Z

IMHO, 3 (three) if's for a whole fs don't look that bad.
on the other side, you'd need to audit much more of
almost the same lines ...

thanks, Alex

>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

JG> With extents and 48bit, you have multiple code paths to audit, regardless.

JG> If applied to ext3, you have to audit

JG> fs/ext3/*.c:
JG> if (extents)
JG> ...
JG> else
JG> ...

JG> as opposed to

JG> fs/ext3/*.c:
JG> ... non-extent code
JG> fs/ext4/*.c: