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 |
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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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642