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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: Jeremy Bongio <bongiojp@gmail.com>
Cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Add ioctls to get/set the ext4 superblock uuid.
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 04:18:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Ytd0G0glVWdv+iaD@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220719234131.235187-1-bongiojp@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 04:41:31PM -0700, Jeremy Bongio wrote:
> +/*
> + * Structure for EXT4_IOC_GETFSUUID/EXT4_IOC_SETFSUUID
> + */
> +struct fsuuid {
> +	__u32       fsu_len;
> +	__u32       fsu_flags;
> +	__u8        fsu_uuid[];
> +};

A UUID has a defined size (128 bits):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier

Why are we defining flags and len?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-20  3:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-19 23:41 [PATCH v4] Add ioctls to get/set the ext4 superblock uuid Jeremy Bongio
2022-07-20  3:18 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2022-07-20  3:30   ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-07-20 14:11     ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-20 18:00       ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-07-20 18:27         ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-20 18:47           ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-07-20 19:08             ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-20 20:11               ` Jeremy Bongio
2022-07-20 20:23                 ` Darrick J. Wong
2022-07-20 14:59     ` Theodore Ts'o

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