[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 05/15] Add xattr header in ocfs2.v2

[Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>]

[ everything up until this patch looks great ]

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 03:01:10PM +0800, Tao Ma wrote:
> +struct ocfs2_xattr_entry {
> +	__le32	xe_name_hash;
> +	__le16	xe_name_offset;
> +	__u8	xe_name_len;
> +	__u8	xe_type : 7;
> +	__u8	xe_local : 1;

Would you mind turning xe_type / xe_local into just one __u8 with the
bottom-most bit reserved for the local bit and the upper 7 bits used as
type? I'm not quite sure about whether bitfields are considered safe for use
in disk structures. At the very least, it seems a bit controversial.

I would heartily support you creating two pairs of _set / _get macros in
this file to aid in such a change.

Thanks,
	--Mark

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Mark Fasheh