http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14354 --- Comment #180 from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 2009-11-06 22:26:13 --- On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > For ext4, one thing I would suggest is to simply always put the NUL at the > > end of the name, even if the filesystem might not need it. Then > > nd_terminate_link() will still write the NUL, but it won't change any data > > (and thus no CRC's). > > Ah, good idea in the short term at least. Btw, if you do that, then for Chris' debug patch you might then make nd_terminate_link() do a conditional write ("only write NUL if it isn't already NUL"), and thus avoid the debug code triggering for that case. Linus -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are watching the assignee of the bug. -- 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
