Re: [PATCH 8/9] 48-bit block numbers for extended attributes

Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:41:00 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.file-systems.ext2.devel,gmane.linux.file-systems,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:22:09 -0700
Mingming Cao <[email protected]> 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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