Re: private data in inode and superblock structures

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On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 02:47:41PM +0200, Etay Meiri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The structures inode and super_block contain a union called 'u'
> for keeping FS specific data. This basically means that if I develop
> a file system which is not part of the official kernel than the users
> of my FS must recompile the kernel if they want to use it. Is there
> a workaround?

->u.generic_ip / ->u.generic_sbp.  See my 'freevxfs' driver in recent
kernels for details.

	Christoph

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