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

[Jeff Garzik]

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



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