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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: cmm@us.ibm.com
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] 48-bit block numbers for extended attributes
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:41:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809234100.9337162d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1155172929.3161.87.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:22:09 -0700
Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> As we are planning to support 48-bit block numbers for ext4,
> we need to support 48-bit block numbers for extended attributes.
> In the short term, we can do this by reuse (on-disk) 16-bit
> padding (linux2.i_pad1 currently used only by "hurd") as high 
> order bits for xattr. This patch basically does that.

Short-term tends to become medium-term, then you're stuck with it.

What is the plan here?

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-10  1:22 [PATCH 8/9] 48-bit block numbers for extended attributes Mingming Cao
2006-08-10  6:41 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-08-10 17:27   ` Mingming Cao

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