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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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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