On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:13:10AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Hum, I'm not sure I follow you. Current kernels will store any 32-bit > number user sets in flags field. So if we wanted to be 100% safe, we'd have > to just ignore that field. Which isn't currently a problem since quota code > doesn't use the field for anything (it was added just for future > extensions). But since I'm pretty certain noone actually relies on values > of that field, I though we could just get away with forcibly zeroing the > field now and if there's a need to use the field in a few years, we could > start using it.
Oh, I misread the code and your description. I thought we would just store any potentially valid in-core flag on disk. I guess for now the best case would be to stop storing anything, and then just make an educated decision if/when we need a flags field. _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list Ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel
