Re: [RFC] reserved inode fields to use for i_blocks_high

On Jun 02, 2006  18:07 +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 15:00 -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> > Stephen instead suggested using one of the other HURD-reserved fields
> > on the assumption that HURD won't support > 16TB files until after
> > they have moved the reserved fields to extended attributes.
> 
> This would also leave the frag fields usable for (say) epoch extension.

If we have 2 bits of epoch extension with the nsecond timestamps,
then we can hope everyone has updated away from the 128-byte inodes
in the next 270 years, and they can get larger timestamps still...

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Principal Software Engineer
Cluster File Systems, Inc.