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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] GFS2: File and inode operations
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:26:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060425102628.GA26219@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145886796.3856.161.camel@quoit.chygwyn.com>

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 02:53:16PM +0100, Steven Whitehouse wrote:
> > Actually, the 0x0080000 flag has been reserved by e2fsprogs for ext3
> > extents for a while already.  AFAICS, there are no other flags in the
> > current e2fsprogs that aren't listed above.
> > 
> So if I call that one IFLAG_EXTENT, then I presume that will be ok?
> What about the 0x00040000 flag? That would seem to be a gap in the
> sequence (ignoring GFS flags for now), so should I leave that reserved
> for use by ext2/3 as well?

note that at least reiserfs, jfs snd xfs seem to use additional flags aswell.
It would be really helpful if we could get a linux/fflags.h that collects all
of having them spread all over.  Anyone volunteering to create it?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-25 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-21 16:13 [PATCH 05/16] GFS2: File and inode operations Steven Whitehouse
2006-04-23  7:55 ` Andreas Dilger
2006-04-24 13:53   ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-04-24 22:19     ` Andreas Dilger
2006-04-25  9:27       ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-04-25 10:26     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-04-25 11:14       ` Steven Whitehouse
2006-04-25 12:38         ` Christoph Hellwig

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