Re: ext4 compat flag assignments

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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 10:55:15AM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
> struct ext4_super_block
> {
> 	/* at offset 0xfe */
> 	__le32	s_desc_size;		/* Group descriptor size */
> 	/* at offset 0x150 */
> 	__le32	s_blocks_count_hi;	/* Blocks count */
> 	__le32	s_r_blocks_count_hi;	/* Reserved blocks count */
> 	__le32	s_free_blocks_count_hi;	/* Free blocks count */
> 	__le32	s_jnl_blocks_hi[17];	/* Backup of the journal inode */
> };

Why do we need to have the high blocks # of the journal inode.
s_jnl_blocks was just a backup of the i_blocks[] array.  But if we are
assuming that we will only support 64-bits using extents, we shouldn't
need s_jnl_blocks_hi[].  How specifically is this array being used in
the patches?


						- Ted

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