Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3
Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>
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Dave Jones wrote: > Am I missing something fundamental that precludes the use of both > extent-based and current existing filesystems from the same code > simultaneously ? Nothing precludes it. The point is that introducing major format changes inline in this manner just complicates the code progressively to the point where your directory walking, inode block walking, and other code winds up being if (new) ... else ... _anyway_, at which point it is essentially multiple independent filesystems. I guarantee this won't be the last fundamental fs metadata design change people will want to make... Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html