From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:07:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:07:06 -0500 Received: from [24.65.192.120] ([24.65.192.120]:60406 "EHLO webber.adilger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 02:06:57 -0500 From: Andreas Dilger Message-Id: <200101050706.f0576lB12236@webber.adilger.net> Subject: Re: [Ext2-devel] Re: [RFC] ext2_new_block() behaviour In-Reply-To: <20010104232541.J1290@redhat.com> "from Stephen C. Tweedie at Jan 4, 2001 11:25:41 pm" To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 00:06:47 -0700 (MST) CC: Alexander Viro , Andreas Dilger , Andreas Dilger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Theodore Y. Ts'o" , Ext2 development mailing list X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL73 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Stephen, you write: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:31:12PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > BTW, what inumber do you want for whiteouts? IIRC, we decided to use > > the same entry type as UFS does (14), but I don't remember what was > > the decision on inumber. UFS uses 1 for them, is it OK with you? > > 0 is used for padding, so 1 makes sense, yes. Sorry, but what are whiteouts? Inode 1 in ext2 is the bad blocks inode, so it will never be used for a valid directory entry, but depending on what it is we may want to make sure e2fsck is OK with it as well. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/