On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 12:52:56PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/28/2010 11:43 AM, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > I would advocate at least an 8-bit magic value, if there is a concern > > about this field not always being 0-filled on older kernels, or not > > using any ST_VALID flag at all, if it was always zero-filled in the > > past. ST_VALID is required to differentiate between no flags, and flags field unsupported of course. > Did anyone go back and check which kernel versions didn't clear the > spare fields (if any)? At least from 2.4.0 does memset it. 2.2.26 does not. Can you live with that? -- 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