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

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Message-Id: <1220269804.2982.72.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:50:04 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	dedekind@...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 14:43 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> May be, but there are only 5 bytes left. 

There are 5 uint32_ts left. And then there would be 3.

> But why would you need more UUID bytes?

People are mostly using 16-byte UUIDs. We only have space to expose 8
bytes. It just seems to make sense to expose all 16.

But there's no overriding reason to do it, really.

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation



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