>>>>> Linus Torvalds (LT) writes: LT> My point is, maintaining two different pieces is SIMPLER. "different" is a key word here. why should we copy most of ext3 code into ext4? LT> It would be bigger, if you made ext3 do 48-bit block numbers. nope, we re-use existing i_data w/o any changes. yes, we've made inode a bit larger to cache last found extent. this improves performance in some workloads noticable though. LT> See? ext3 would become strictly _worse_ for the majority of users, who LT> wouldn't get any advantage. That's my point. would "#if CONFIG_EXT3_EXTENTS" be a good solution then? thanks. Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
