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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