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

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Date:	Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:11:04 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@...oo.fr>
CC:	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Proposal and plan for ext2/3 future development work

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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