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From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@gnu.org>
To: grub-devel <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: grub2 ChangeLog config.h.in fs/ext2.c
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:07:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200703190107.13575.okuji@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1174242434.26780.32.camel@diesel>

On Sunday 18 March 2007 19:27, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> If the inode size is not 128 bytes, why do we still read `sizeof (struct
> grub_ext2_inode)' bytes from disk?

Because we don't need more than that.

> What is the layout of a non-128-byte 
> inode?

There is extra space right after the traditional inode structure. Currently, 
it can be used only for xattr. If you are interested in the details, look at 
fs/ext3/inode.c in Linux.

Okuji



      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-19  0:08 UTC|newest]

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2007-03-18 18:27 ` grub2 ChangeLog config.h.in fs/ext2.c Hollis Blanchard
2007-03-19  0:07   ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]

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