linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Remove i_ext_generation from ext4_inode

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Date:	Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:59:28 -0700
From:	Andreas Dilger <adilger@....com>
To:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, Alex Zhuravlev <Alex.Zhuravlev@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] ext4: Remove i_ext_generation from	ext4_inode_info
 structure

On Nov 04, 2008  18:47 -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> ext4_inode_info.i_ext_generation isn't used by anything.  Was there an
> intent to use it for something in the future?

Alex was going to use this at one point in the future, but it never
happened.

Cheers, Andreas
--
Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.

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