On Tue, Sep 02, 2014 at 06:25:19PM +0200, Justus Winter wrote:
> No. It has been used at least since 1996. Amazingly this seems to
> have no ill effect other than to make e2fsck complain constantly.
Interesting; I was wondering why no one had complained until now.
> Probably not. We can switch to the Linux on-disk format once we can
> store all Hurdish stuff in extended attributes though.
Hm. When you do this, it would be good to simply stop using
EXT4_OS_HURD in the superblock, since we have a bunch of workarounds
keyed off of that, and your patch will add another --- and I'm
planning on adding still more to make sure a user doesn't accidentally
turn on some ext4 features via mke2fs or tune2fs that use fields that
the Hurd is using for its own nefarious purposes. Otherwise, the
usage clash would lead to no good....
- Ted
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