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

[Jeff Garzik]

Guillaume Chazarain wrote:
> 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 */ ... }'?

It doesn't.  But you can't win them all...

	Jeff



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