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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:04:25 +0200
From: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr>
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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 */ ... }'?

Regards.

-- 
Guillaume