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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs-private data in struct block_device
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 09:48:42 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 09:43:17PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> It looks like the standard normally-a-pointer thing that's completely
> managed opaquely to the block device layer.  In fact, I actually prefer
> that these be (void*) unless there is a common use as an integer.

The XFS usage would be as int (actually as boolean)