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

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.file-systems
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
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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