On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 08:23:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The reason I didn't go any further along that way is that we don't > have any nice atomic operations for small fields like that. The bitops > want a "long" entity, and it becomes just a nightmare to work out bit > positions with big-endian etc. And I definitely didn't want to grow > the inode. Hmm... We still have 19 spare bits in ->i_flags and at least 22 in ->i_state. Do we need to bother with new field at all? ->i_state is unsigned long... -- 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
