Re: Proposal and plan for ext2/3 future development work

From: Guillaume Chazarain
Date: Mon Jul 24 2006 - 09:05:23 EST


Theodore Ts'o wrote:
3) The ext4 code base will continue to mount older ext3 filesystems,

Everybody seems enthusiastic about this plan so I must have missed something, but
how will this compatibility prevent the ext4 code from looking like: 'if (ext4) { ... } else { /* ext3 */ ... }'?

Regards.

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Guillaume

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