On Sep 15, 2008 10:53 -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:49:48AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > I agree to you (or someone elses - don't remember anymore) suggestion > > to put in more padding so we can add fields later. I strongly disagree > > putting in features now that we neither have a user, nor a usecase or > > testcase for. > > So, how about another 64 bits of padding in struct fiemap_extent? That could > help cover future uses like compression, which might require another 64 bit > offset field - we only have 32 bits of reserved space there right now. I'd be happy to see it. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- 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
