From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@enel.ucalgary.ca>,
Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Ext2 development mailing list <ext2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext2_new_block() behaviour
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 00:06:47 -0700 (MST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200101050706.f0576lB12236@webber.adilger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010104232541.J1290@redhat.com> "from Stephen C. Tweedie at Jan 4, 2001 11:25:41 pm"
Stephen, you write:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
> > BTW, what inumber do you want for whiteouts? IIRC, we decided to use
> > the same entry type as UFS does (14), but I don't remember what was
> > the decision on inumber. UFS uses 1 for them, is it OK with you?
>
> 0 is used for padding, so 1 makes sense, yes.
Sorry, but what are whiteouts? Inode 1 in ext2 is the bad blocks inode,
so it will never be used for a valid directory entry, but depending on
what it is we may want to make sure e2fsck is OK with it as well.
Cheers, Andreas
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-11-30 22:13 [CFT][RFC] ext2_new_inode() fixes and cleanup Alexander Viro
2000-11-30 23:18 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2000-12-01 12:55 ` Alexander Viro
2000-12-01 8:27 ` Andreas Dilger
2000-12-01 11:28 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-02 23:33 ` [RFC] ext2_new_block() behaviour Alexander Viro
2001-01-03 1:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-03 3:37 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-03 12:16 ` [Ext2-devel] " Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-03 16:12 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-04 4:42 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-01-04 5:06 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-04 5:15 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-01-04 22:04 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-04 22:31 ` Alexander Viro
2001-01-04 20:48 ` -bird tree " Marcelo Tosatti
2001-01-04 23:25 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2001-01-05 7:06 ` Andreas Dilger [this message]
2001-01-05 11:29 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
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