On Sat, Jan 08, 2011 at 09:05:20AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Although those two numbers are equal right now, there is no reason to > assume that they will remain so in the future. So if the superblock > size (or the offset) changes in the future, it's much better to have > programmed this so that it will keep on working as opposed to getting > to deal with ugly bugs in code that hasn't changed in years... No. The superblock nor its offset will never change. It's like the syscall ABI, only worse. If we changed it would break *everybody*. Fortunately there is a huge amount of space left over in the 1024 byte superblock. - Ted -- 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
