linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UBIFS: fill f

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Message-Id: <1220269436.4036.29.camel@sauron>
Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:43:56 +0300
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@...ia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UBIFS: fill f_fsid

On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 12:28 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > > Alternatively, there's space in the struct statfs to export a couple
> > > more uint32_ts, and thus the _whole_ of the uuid. Perhaps we should do
> > > that?
> > 
> > You mean f_spare? I do not think any application would use it so I doubt
> > it is good idea to use it.
> 
> Well, it wouldn't be called f_spare any more, and applications would
> know that it contains the rest of the UUID if it's non-zero.

May be, but there are only 5 bytes left. But why would you need more
UUID bytes?

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

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