On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 02:47:41PM +0200, Etay Meiri wrote: > 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? The good news is that you could use the generic_ip member of that union, and the good news is that Alexander Viro has plans to remove that union completely in linux-2.5. Erik -- J.A.K. (Erik) Mouw, Information and Communication Theory Group, Faculty of Information Technology and Systems, Delft University of Technology, PO BOX 5031, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands Phone: +31-15-2783635 Fax: +31-15-2781843 Email: J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl WWW: http://www-ict.its.tudelft.nl/~erik/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ IRC Channel: irc.openprojects.net / #kernelnewbies Web Page: http://www.kernelnewbies.org/
