Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC 0/13] extents and 48bit ext3

IMHO, 3 (three) if's for a whole fs don't look that bad.
on the other side, you'd need to audit much more of
almost the same lines ...

thanks, Alex

>>>>> Jeff Garzik (JG) writes:

 JG> With extents and 48bit, you have multiple code paths to audit, regardless.

 JG> If applied to ext3, you have to audit

 JG> 	fs/ext3/*.c:
 JG> 		if (extents)
 JG> 			...
 JG> 		else
 JG> 			...

 JG> as opposed to

 JG> 	fs/ext3/*.c:
 JG> 		...	non-extent code
 JG> 	fs/ext4/*.c:
 JG> 		...	extent code


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