On 11/05/2010 07:56 AM, Czarnowska, Anna wrote:
Metadata_version is needed for: Deciding if metadata type is container-based - more than just the utime check depends on it Getting parent container number from subarrays - for linking subarrays with containers Obtaining superswitch - to avoid calling guess_super when we already know the kind of metadata Introducing utime_valid flag would just duplicate part of information included in metadata_version. Regards Anna
Ah, ok reading this patch in isolation does not convey these future usages. We could put this text in the changelog.
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