On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:44 +1100, David Chinner wrote: > Maybe we should be using EAs for this sort of thing instead of flags > on the inode? If we keep adding inode flags for generic features > then we are going to force more than just XFS into inode format > changes eventually.... You do need to be judicious in what you add, but we got up to here (well over 10 years) with 16 bits worth of space - increasing to 32 bits is going to last a fairly long time... I wouldn't switch to a different scheme until that point (which is also the point where the system calls are going to have to change anyway). cheers. -- Nathan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
