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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] add f_flags to struct statfs(64)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:25:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100629092558.GA27397@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100629085759.GN28364@laptop>

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 06:57:59PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:52:56PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> > 
> > On 06/28/2010 11:43 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > > I would advocate at least an 8-bit magic value, if there is a concern
> > > about this field not always being 0-filled on older kernels, or not
> > > using any ST_VALID flag at all, if it was always zero-filled in the
> > > past.
> 
> ST_VALID is required to differentiate between no flags, and
> flags field unsupported of course.

Yes, that was my intention for it.

> 
> > spare fields (if any)?
> 
> At least from 2.4.0 does memset it. 2.2.26 does not. Can you
> live with that?

The spare fields in struct statfs have been zeroed since 2.3.99pre3-8,
before that they were set to a pattern of 0xff.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-29  9:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-26  9:35 [PATCH 2/2] add f_flags to struct statfs(64) Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-26  9:56 ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-26 13:09   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-26 13:16     ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-26 12:55 ` Neil Brown
2010-06-26 13:12   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-27  7:55 ` Tao Ma
2010-06-27  9:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-28 18:43 ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-28 19:52   ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-28 20:07     ` Andreas Dilger
2010-06-29  8:57     ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-29  9:25       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-29  9:59       ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-06-29 11:05         ` Nick Piggin
2010-06-29 12:57         ` Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-07 16:53 Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 17:11 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-07-07 17:31   ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 17:33     ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-07 17:55       ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-07-07 18:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 18:50           ` Nick Piggin
2010-07-07 19:30             ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-18  6:41               ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-18 17:03                 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-07-07 18:16       ` Nick Piggin

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