On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 18:22:09 -0700 Mingming Cao <cmm@xxxxxxxxxx> 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? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
