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From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-xfs <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: include the XFS magic number in magic.h
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 09:04:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1513173865.7839.3.camel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171213025928.GZ5858@dastard>

On Wed, 2017-12-13 at 13:59 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:

> IOWs, if you need to identify a filesystem *type*, using internal
> magic numbers is not the way to do it. selinux, for example, checks
> sb->s_type->name quite a lot....

Thanks, this works fine.  Is there a defined max name length?

Mimi


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-13 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-12 14:21 [PATCH] xfs: include the XFS magic number in magic.h Mimi Zohar
2017-12-12 14:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-12-12 14:34   ` Mimi Zohar
2017-12-12 14:36     ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-12-12 15:04       ` Mimi Zohar
2017-12-12 23:30         ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-12 23:55           ` Mimi Zohar
2017-12-13  0:13             ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-13  1:21               ` Mimi Zohar
2017-12-13  2:59                 ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-13  8:43                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-12-13 14:04                   ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2017-12-12 21:13 ` Dave Chinner
2017-12-12 23:35   ` Mimi Zohar

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