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

Jeff Garzik
2006-06-09T20:28:15Z

Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
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> JG> No, there is a key difference between ext3 and SCSI/etc.: cruft is removed.
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> JG> In ext3, old formats are supported for all eternity.
>
> we'd need this anyway. just to let users to migrate.

No, ext4 should remove some of the crufty old back-compat code.

Jeff