From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tao Ma <tao.ma@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:09:18 +0800
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2-tools: Add extended attribute
 support in mkfs.ocfs2
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Tiger Yang wrote:
> Joel Becker 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;
>>> +	__le64	xe_value_size;
>>> +};
>> 	We removed the bitfields.
> 
> Do we really remove the bitfields? We have no space for new u8 in 
> xattr_entry.
> Mark said we just need change the bottom bit for xe_local.
Yes, tiger may be right. Here is the original mail link.
http://oss.oracle.com/pipermail/ocfs2-devel/2008-July/002489.html

FYI.

Regards,
Tao