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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
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Alex Tomas wrote:
>>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:
> 
>  JG> No, there is a key difference between ext3 and SCSI/etc.:  cruft is removed.
> 
>  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